I am happier in light aircraft than I am in commercial jetliners and I put that down to claustrophobia, which is a phobia of mine. Being crammed inside the slender tube of a jet with hundreds of others and barely a toilet-size window to peep out of gives me the shivers. I find small planes or choppers much nicer because I can see all around me. Itʼs more like “proper” flying, like what birds do, until vertigo kicks in and then I want to yowl like a hadeda thatʼs just leapt off a roof.
But there is some security in being close to a pilot, seeing how they operate the machine and realising that if theyʼre not nervous steering around a thunderhead or riding summer afternoon thermals in 45°C heat,…
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Getaway (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2022