Wow, what a weekend! I had (sort of) surprised Mas with a flight lesson for his birthday. The sort came from me being too excited to wait and I also needed his weight haha. He had worked with an old co-worker who runs a flight school, California Airways, and is a pilot himself. I thought okay, even though I’m not totally on board for the whole flying thing I knew the conversations about flying were starting to occur more and more often.
Mas woke up with a huge smile on his face and peaked his head outside to confirm that the sun rays shining into our bedroom did in fact mean amazingly beautiful weather. We headed out to the Hayward airport and when we arrived Mas dove right into the plane video game that they had setup in the waiting area to get warmed up.
When it was his turn for the simulator practice, we were both amazed by the room, it had HUGE tv screens and the simulator environment was of the Bay Area. It’s a good thing Mas has such a great sense of direction. I should mention that I was there as support but had decided that I didn’t really want to ride as a passenger aka I was freakin scared! After the simulator though and talking to Mas’ old co-worker I felt like I would totally be missing out on a beautiful day coasting around the bay, so I rode as a passenger. :)
Mas, his old co-worker and myself headed out to the plane and for some reason my nerves appeared to be much less than when we took the helicopter ride in Hawaii (yikes! I haven’t posted these pictures). They checked out the plane and then we boarded, went through the checklist and …. took off!
Words can’t describe the view, we literally coasted all around the bay area with Mas flying like a pro. We flew over the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, the coast, Palo Alto and back to Hayward. The flight was very smooth and I actually felt safe oddly haha.
I never thought that I would say this but I’m looking forward to Mas getting his pilot’s license. :)
