I decided to get in a quick flight before church this morning. I made my way out to New J and found a couple other PPG guys out there and a hot air balloon. Should have been a nice easy takeoff but it was a little crowded. I should have moved farther down the runway. I should have oriented more into the wind. I should have a lot of things. Don’t worry, nothing bad happened. My pride got a little bent but nothing else.
As I was taking off my wing started to oscillate. Rather than slow down and dampen it properly I fell back on my fixed wing roots and gave it full power. I got off the ground but it wasn’t pretty. So I need to go back to New J and just do some taxi practice.
If a picture is worth a thousand words then a video is worth a million…