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had been two weeks since I was flying and "hangover" of all the crap dumped on television about the tragic flight Spanair 5022. Spend some time without flying is bad, but if you have to hold up a plane crash all the time can adversely affect a pilot. It's very serious, it makes you think that one day something might happen up there and if you're really prepared to deal with it. Fortunately, when I walk down the platform and climb into the cockpit you do not really think about it.

On several occasions I have mentioned how much I like flying solo, but this time took the opportunity to bring a colleague. In the background to all the pilots we like to go to people on a plane and teach how the things any of you just getting the bug. In that scant second I have to check the implementation of engine during takeoff take the opportunity to look at their faces and never fails, they all are shocked to see the ground under his feet away, as if they had ever flown.

Normally I try to go out with them in the days of "sun and flies" to prevent someone from casting finished breakfast. However, such days of quiet atmosphere not often occur in Galicia. That day was blowing a little wind, but the north and quite noising to the track. After the safety briefing where we say everything we do in case of engine failure on takeoff, we make the checklists and the test motor. Still OK, the tower allows us to align in the track header, now the wind direction is 04. "We're going to move something in the off" - I say to Ramon. Today we will fly to the Marina Lugo, so the output will Coruña airspace by Echo One point I called the checklist before takeoff when the tower gives us permission to leave. "Ready Ramon? Well, we're going." I push the throttle lever to the bottom and check that the anemometer is "alive", the engine still in green and reached 60 knots rotate to go to air. It's true that he was going to move, but less than I expected, really. We arrived at the level of security and then a new checklist, we turned right toward the reservoir Cecebre, flying over its southern part as there is traffic from flying school in the area. On arriving at Echo Point One, call and ask Santiago approach climb to 5,500 feet.

"See that mountain? There is behind Eume Dam." Eume River Dam is one of the most beautiful Galician authentic for being surrounded by cliffs. It seems that the mountains have been cut with a knife, similar to those that exist in the canyons of the Sil. "If you dare, make a sharp turn on it ..." We lined

Cape Ortegal to see scattered clouds fall to approximately 2,000 feet below us. Flying above the clouds, near them, is one of the joys of flying. You can see your own shadow reflected in them and surrounded by a circle of colors like a rainbow, a result of the refraction of sunlight on the humidity. It was a perfect day to do what a good friend called "cloud walking", or "walk in the clouds." I remember once that being a friend on his first flight and began to shout as it was impressive. Imagine the face of someone who has never seen the clouds from above ...

Since

Ramon weather the storm well, I decided to do something she had never done with a passenger on board the plane to take zero gravity. The experiment consists of holding a pen with the palm of your hand, make a parabola up to zero gravity and keep the pen floating in the cabin. Ramon is encouraged, although he warned that the move I had never left alone. We adjust our belts, Ramon held the pen. "Just hold it, he will only begin to float." Meto power and describing a parabola ascend until the aircraft no longer has much more energy. Our weight is increased by the g's positive. Just at the vertex of the parabola, where we start to itch to move from positive to negative g's, it rises to the level cero.Y it was: the pen started to float in the cabin for a few seconds. The negative g's are pretty awful, but had experienced before and during the course of acrobatics with the Yak-52. However, feel and see a floating object as if we were impressed enough space. Ramon is hallucinating while looking for the pen, which ended in the back of the cabin, I try to accommodate your feet on the pedals again, because at the moment of the "floating", my legs were raised. No doubt an experience to remember.

clouds prevent us from seeing the coast and we believe that there was nothing else to do. We had flown almost two hours!. The evening was falling and had to return to meet the flight plan 1 hour 45 min we had planned. Upon our arrival we found something in the process commercial traffic at the airport, so had to hurry or we would have to make you wait. The wind was still from the north, although somewhat stronger than when we took off. There was no alternative, had to enter through the 04, something complicated when the north wind is moderate due to orographic turbulence. However, due to commercial traffic that would come in a few minutes, the tower gave us permission to make a "final cortíiiisima", thus avoiding the hill Costa and turbulence. I reckon it was the shortest final approach and exciting I did in my life. Undoubtedly, the icing on a flight suitable for restless spirits.