When First Landings, the flight school where I did my Sport Pilot training, announced it was organizing a North Carolina “adventure flight,” I was intrigued. The plan was for a group of us to depart early one Friday morning in April from Apopka, Florida’s X04 for a long weekend of hiking and whitewater rafting in Franklin, North Carolina, and return that Monday. Another sport pilot and I would fly the Remos while the SportCrusier and Gobash light-sport aircraft would each have a sport pilot and a CFI.
When I confessed to Chris Esposito, one the school’s co-owners and instructors, that the trip sounded a little intimidating, he counseled: “In order to become a better pilot, you need to get outside of your comfort zone, and trips like this do just that, so join us!”
