flying

A bit about my pilot background. A🧵:

- I started dreaming about flying when I was 2yo. (Maybe before but I made this number up as I can't remember, but when I was a kid for sure).
- I drew my first plane around 5yo. And all drawings had a plane in it after that. Drawing of mom, of course, look she is in a plane, you can see her eye through the window. A flower? Here's one with a plane flying over...
- I went as a passenger on front seat in a DR200 at 6yo
- I built my first model plane out of balsa wood with my teacher when I was 10yo.
- I built one all by myself at 12 with a small 1.5cc gas engine. I still have it but it requires some repairs. Glue is cracking.
- I drew my first plane blueprint at about the same age.
- I wanted to be a pilot but poor seight made teachers tell me I could not. It's completely incorrect. Many fly with glasses.
- then I discovered computer simulation and flew everything that looked like a plane. They were looking more like a pixel at the time but imagination does the rest.

My dad being equipped with a chute to fly in the SF28 motor glider.
Me looking at it. I'm 6 yo.

Now this plane has been repainted since the first pic of me was decades ago. But still it keeps its promises and I pilot it now and can give a ride to my friends. The circle of life.