We’ll digress for just a moment. As of this writing, much of the country is sheltering at home while we deal with the challenges of COVID-19. We’re hearing from pilots via email and social media who are kicking themselves for not pulling the trigger and taking the aerobatic instruction they’d always wanted. They’d procrastinated and now they couldn’t—at least for a while—and they swore that when things opened up again, they’d go for it.
They were learning one of the hard truths of aviation—if there’s a chance to do something way cool, a lot of fun and that sharpens the skills, grab it. Too often, the opportunity is fleeting.