First Flight

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Finally did it for real today.  Had my intro flight in an '95 piper warrior.  Just enough time to get a feel for the controls, practiced staying level and turned a couple times.
  Some dweeb in a cessna tried to ram us but the instructor put us in a hasty dive (i think we dove somewhere between 400-600 feet from something like 2.2k to 1.6k ft) and got away.  The radio to the tower went something like:
tower: how close were you to him?
instructor: very, very close but we got our pants changed and are ready for landing.
He said that was as close as he's ever been to another plane.. I wasn't nearly as scared as I probably should have been, but I did resist the urge to pull back up on his 6 and shoot him down.  
Interestingly the feel of the controls and view outside was pretty disorienting/unfamilar but i was perfectly comfortable when looking down at the insturments  

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So, what did the icon say above that plane distance wise

[Saintaw]

Oh! That must have been cool, Check if your instructor wasn't "Frenchy"... I'm pretty sure he'd like that kind of stunts  

& btw, you should have splitted-S & come back behind his Ar*e man!  

Saw
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[This message has been edited by Saintaw (edited 03-30-2001).]