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Hello friend, captain Terry Warner, here this will be Season 4, episode 43, Learning to Fly.
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I decided back in 2002 to get my pilot's license.
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I'd been sort of flying with my stepson and having a good time and enjoyed it and I decided to get my pilot's license and so I got to the airport and I get an introduction to the plane and the wings and the fuselage and walk around and checklist and everything else.
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The first hour is pretty intense because you're trying to learn everything and pay attention to what's going on.
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So we got everything checked out, got the checklist, got everything done pretty much got the questions answered.
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I won't go into detail on this, but it's sort of funny.
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I'm plugging my microphone in my headset in.
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If you don't plug it in all the way or plug it in the right slot.
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Now mine is fixed where you can't plug it in the wrong slot, but if you don't plug it in all the way, it goes dead.
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And I thought, oh, and I plugged it in and it was dead.
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And I thought to myself, oh, for crying out loud, first time I'm going to learn to fly, first airplane flight, and I get a microphone, a headset that doesn't work.
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Well, the instructor saw my dilemma and my facial expressions and reached over and shoved it the rest of the way in the plug hole and away we went.
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So the first thing we started doing was taxiing around the buildings and down the alleyways and stuff of the airfield, the ramps and stuff.
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And then we got ready to go take off on the first flight.
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And boy, I go through my pre-check list.
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I'm, I am pumped, I am ready to go, and down the runway we go.
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Now we were in a little tomahawk, that's a two-seater small plane and we were using all the runway.
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We had over 6,000 feet of runway and all the runway.
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We had over 6,000 feet of runway, plenty of runway, plenty of runway to take off and land several times, but anyway.
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So down the runway we go and I get up to my speed, I pull back a little bit and my instructor's coaxing me along and everything and we can't get up to speed to lift off.
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We just can't develop the airspeed.
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So my instructor I think we were probably maybe halfway down the runway said how are you on emergency procedures?
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And I said wasn't planning on an emergency the first time I flew.
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So we got a chuckle out of that and we backed the power off and turned and canceled the takeoff and turned back onto the ramp and taxied back to the hangar and they had been running the mixture too rich and the plugs fouled out and we had power and we had airplane, but we could not develop enough power to take off.
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So it sounds more serious than it was and it may have been because I had the throttle on rich.
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I teased them about it but they teased me back.
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So the next weekend, off we go and I take my first flight, first flight, and I'm nervous, of course, gripping the steering wheel and the yoke, the rudder, the yoke, and finally the instructor talks me into using my thumb and two fingers, three at the most.
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And that's how I controlled the plane.
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You don't need to manhandle it, you don't need to be rough with it.
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You don't need to be tough with it, you need to relax, just like driving a car.
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So I fairly much got to where I could do that.
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So my first lesson after the taxi lesson was climb, descent and turns.
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That's what we did the first hour.
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Came back in and turns that's what we did the first hour.
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Came back in and landed.
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That would have been in May 2002.
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In August of 2002, I soloed After 15.4 hours.
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I soloed and I thought I went out there the day before and I did three touch and goes.
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I went out there the day before and did 10 touch and goes and I thought to myself he's not going to let me solo, I'm going to just do touch and goes.
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Went out the next day and did six more touch and goes.
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I guess I was having trouble with the takeoffs and landings, mainly the landings.
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If you're not exactly on your numbers, right altitude, the right speed, it makes the landing sloppy.
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And so I finally got frustrated and said what have I got to do to get this thing to work, to get my landing down?
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And he said you got to get on those numbers, you got to get on your pattern altitude, you got to get your speed, you got to get on your glide slope, you got to get on your focal focus point, you've got to intentionally go down there with the intention of landing and doing it correctly and having the front wheel on the center line.
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Once I did that by golly it worked and it worked nice and it was a lot easier than trying to manhandle it and speed up and slow down and turn and this and that and everything else.
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So I got my solo.
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So I did turns and touch and goes.
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I soloed.
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I mean I'll give you an example One day I did.
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Well, over a period of a week I did 62 landings and takeoffs and landings and pretty soon I got to 300 and something.
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Takeoffs and landings.
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I got real good at that, probably better than flying, to be truthful.
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So how does I connect that with my Christian walk?
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Well, I got to reading the Bible.
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I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, got to reading the Bible, got interested, received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and you know, I probably just the Spirit in me just realized that.
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I made me realize that I probably turned some people off when I said that Folks, don't do your Christian life riding in a two-seater airplane.
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Move on up, get deeper in the things of the Lord, get more experience in the things of the Lord, because there's a whole treasure chest of blessings, prosperity, adventure when you get to know Jesus and start having fun with Him, when he quits being a religious object and starts being a friend, when he quits being God and starts being your big brother.
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I'm not trying to put God down or bring God down.
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As a matter of fact, I'm trying to get up, closer to Him, and he raised me up.
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He came down to my level when I couldn't get up to his.
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Don't say in your heart, bring Christ down or bring Christ up.
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Just say the words nigh you, what's it mean?
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The words inside me, it's in my mouth and it's in my mouth that it be in my heart and out of the abundance of the heart, my mouth speaks.
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I'll pick up on this next week and we'll go a little more, but why don't you this week just start like you're learning how to fly.
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Just start like you're learning how to be a new Christian and start reading the Bible as it was the first time and, if you're not born again, give your heart to Jesus Christ.
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Just say Jesus, come into my heart.
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I need help, my things are a mess, my life's a mess and I need to get turned around, especially before you return.
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You have a blessed day In Jesus' name and we'll see you next week.
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Amen.
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The lord bless you and keep you.
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The lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious unto you.
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