AOPA Pilot Magazine - June 2022 - 38

BRIEFING
MUSINGS /
Beginnings
Giving his time to introduce others to flying
BY TIM SCHNABEL
AOPA PR ES I DENT MARK Baker's moving column " President's
Position: Giving of Our Time " (February 2022 AOPA Pilot) got me
thinking. His sentence, " Most of us were introduced to this wonderful
thing called flying by someone who went out of their way
to take us on an airplane ride, " made me think of my first flying
experiences. Living my early years in an apartment building in a
working-class neighborhood, where none of my friends' parents
were pilots, made it challenging to encounter that " someone. " As a
young boy with my family watching the single-engine beauties take
off and land at Beverly Regional Airport (BVY) in Massachusetts,
I passionately wanted to be on the inside looking out. I stopped
asking my folks if I could take one of those scenic flights because I
knew the repeated answer of " We can't afford it " was true.
However, at the age of 13, my buddy Ray and I saved money
from our paper routes for a secret adventure. We made up a story
for our mothers and on a cold, windy, sunshine-filled winter day,
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we bicycled the five miles to the airport. We parked our bikes at the
building with the sign out front that read: " Scenic Flights $3. " With
our hearts racing, we opened the door. The man we spoke to at the
flight operations office, the last obstacle to our access to the gorgeous
airplane sitting proudly outside his window, wasn't all that excited
about us going flying. He explained that because of the extreme cold
the engine first needed to be heated before it could be started. OK,
we could wait! Then, in a parental manner, he somberly asked if we
really wanted to go flying in such windy conditions. " Of course, " was
our reply. Did our parents know we were here? " Of course! "
Ray and I flipped a coin and he got to sit up front in the beautiful
Cessna 172. Those 15 to 20 minutes were transformative for me.
When the Cessna roared down the runway and jumped into the sky,
I felt free. Perhaps for the first time in my life I was experiencing
what I truly wanted, feeling a sense of both wonder and victory. I
would deal with my unsuspecting mother later. When we flew over
STUART BRIERS

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