Joy of Aerobatics

By Greg Koontz, MCFI-A

It's not like you think. It rarely is. I have spent nearly forty years teaching thousands to fly aerobatics. One of the best parts of doing that is watching the first impressions. We sit in our arm chairs dreaming of flight, all kinds of flight. We climb into sleek machines and traverse mazes filled with cumulus mountains. We might be cruising to exotic places or circulating around the local pattern. It all fantasizes differently from how it happens in real life.