Well I was at any rate. Some time ago Tracy bought me a one of those activity vouchers for a present, this voucher being for a flying lesson. Now I have always wanted to learn to fly, ever since I was an Avionics Apprentice for the UK Ministry of Defence. Unfortunately I have never really been able to afford the expense to do so, what with even an NPPL costing around £4500.
Still the lesson was a nice present and I arranged with the flying school at Compton Abbas. Well we turned up a little early on Saturday and met up with my Mother-in-Law Sue. Tracy, Sue and the girls then waited on the ground whilst I went up (Cara wanted to come but there was nobody else willing to go up to look after her - wooses).
I had a quick chat with the instructor whilst he grabbed a quick lunch and explained my previous Avionics experience, which meant we could skip most of the stuff about controls and instruments, We then got into the plane and were off.

We had nearly an hour of flying, which allowed us to fly down to my house and then round Portland Bill and back to Compton Abbas. I was at the main controls (i.e. the yoke) for pretty much the whole of the flight, minus take off and landing (I chickened out of landing - although the instructor was happy for me to have taken the controls for that EEK!).
Damn that was good fun - unfortunately I REALLY want to learn how to fly now. I can only hope I win a good sized Poker tournament or win the lottery,