Flying

Make me want to do this

Easy. Take a ride. Most flight schools and small aviation companies will charge you no more than a few hundred rands for a taste – usually an hour ride, with an instructor. You get to grab the controls for part of the time, zip around, maybe fly over your house. It’s usually called a discovery flight. Do this.

When you fly in a small aircraft at a low altitude, the sensation is not so much that the world below gets smaller. The overwhelming sensation is that the sky gets bigger. Bigger than you’ve ever seen it, even from some endless beach, or from out in the desert, or from the multilayered polycarbonate window of a commercial airliner. The sky pulls you up and surrounds