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QotD: Flying

Question: What’s the most unusual thing in which you’ve ever flown?

My Answer: I’ve flown in jets, a prop plane through the grand canyon, a helicopter, and one time I flew inside of a big round room with a huge fan in the floor. It was Indoor Skydiving in Gatlinburg, TN and was quite a bit of fun! Spend 30 minutes or so being trained on how to position yourself in order to lift-off, and getting all your gear on. Then you enter the room with a few other people and throw yourself onto the padded mats around the edges in order to get comfortable with falling. The instructor then takes you to the center of the room, and has you lay down on the wire that is between you and the gigantic, deadly spinning blades of the fan. Once you get yourself positioned, they turn up the speed of the fan, and as long as you are positioned for optimum “flyability”, you will begin to ascend to the top of the room. I did pretty well, and took off immediately, but my instructor pulled me back down before I got out of his reach. I guess he didn’t want me to get 30 feet in the air and then lose my position and fall to my doom. You’re only in the room for a few minutes, but it’s a lot of fun and worth the money to at least try it once.