Скачать или смотреть Our first gyrocopter flight

Wow what a day! Lisette and I went to Petaluma and had a flight in an open-air gyrocopter. The instructor knew I am interested in getting my license so he asked if I wanted to fly (of course I did but I was expecting to just take the stick for some straight flight since I’m not an accredited pilot and this was my first time in a gyrocopter) but he gave me the controls for the entire taxi to the runway as soon as we got in. Then, once we were airborne, he asked me to take the stick and perform left and right 90 degree turns, then 180 turns and a 360. I ended up on the stick for a large portion of the flight. Obviously not take off or landing.

Was an incredible flight. We performed a vertical hover descent, flew 20ft off the ground between trees and over a lake.

Big thanks to Kent and the guys at Cierva Aero.