Helicopter Lesson

I got my first helicopter lesson just yesterday. You see, it had been my dream to be a professional helicopter pilot when I was young. Well, as so often is the case, other things came up and life took its own course, as it surely will, but I couldn’t help still being quite attracted to the idea of helicopter flying lessons. So on my twenty-first birthday, after getting me completely smashed on all manner of strange and exotic drinks, my prankster friends announced that, bright and early the next day, I had my first helicopter lesson scheduled.

Needless to say, I had mixed feelings about this but, guzzling a few liters of coffee, and shaking the cobwebs out of my eyes, just barely getting sober after a night spent painting the town, I drove in to my helicopter lesson as my friends slept off their hangovers. Well, the whole thing went great. I’m not saying exactly that I am ready to become a professional helicopter pilot, but from the results of my first helicopter lesson, it is clear that I am somewhat of a natural. Usually, according to the pilot who instructed me, the student gets to do very little during their first helicopter lesson. The controls of a helicopter are so complicated (much more so than an airplane) that simply learning how to hover in the air is something that can take several helicopter lessons to begin to master. But I got it almost immediately. Once I started flying, for the rest of the helicopter lesson I got to do almost everything. The only point where he took over again was when we were landing. “We’ll save that for next lesson,” he joked.

Well, after that, I almost tripped over myself in my speed to sign up for another helicopter lesson. It is next Tuesday, and boy am I excited. The pilot says that, if I keep learning at the rate I am, he’ll begin to show me the very start of the landing approach next time. Although it will be several helicopter lessons before I can even try anything like takeoff or landing, I am confident that, very soon, I will start to understand the air like a real helicopter pilot does. Maybe soon I can even get an amature pilot’s license, and after that, who knows? That helicopter lesson was probably the best present I ever received.