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If you can stomach it, take some flying lessons. You'll be less scared of processes you understand. Start with a bunch of ground school, so you understand how the aircraft works, meteorology and the effort that goes into aircraft maintenance. Then, take a discover flight on a small aircraft and discover the love of aviation!

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Can you take like a one off intro to flying and fly a plane? Or is it more involved then that?

Yes! A lot of private/instructional airports have what they call discovery or introductory flights. You sit in the cockpit of a Cessna with an instructor who takes you to a safe altitude and lets you do some turns and altitude changes in the plane, see the scenery, then takes you in and lands for you. The idea is you take this before you buy all the textbooks and commit to learning to fly to see if it's for you.

Figured there had to be something like that to get someone interested. Sounds fun thanks

One advice though is to schedule the first discovery flight closer to sunset when the air is usually very calm and there is no turbulence.

Great tip, similar to evening, early morning is my favourite time to fly because winds seldom pick up in the early dawn morning, plus better visibility and no traffic on the way to the airport. And it's beautiful!

cool tip. Didnt know that. thanks

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