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| - My wife and I received a gift card for a ride with Turf Soaring, and it was awesome. My wife did the 5,000-foot scenic ride and enjoyed taking the controls and piloting the craft. I did the 4,000-foot aerobatic flight, and it was among the most fun activities I've done (up there with racing cars, motorcycles, sky-diving, and parasailing). For the aerobatic flight, you need to don a parachute before climbing in the cockpit. After the briefing, we towed up behind the other plane, released, and then the instructor did a series of aerobatics -- starting with a roll and a loop, and then a cloverleaf (loop with a 90-degree turn). Then i took the controls and got to fly, which was fun. I had the option of continuing to fly or turning over the controls for more stunts, so I chose B. We then did a roll, a half-roll (flying upside down for a lot longer than i thought we would!), and my personal favorite, a hammerhead... basically diving steeply to gather speed, then climbing vertically until just before stall, and then peeling off left and diving again. On many times through the flight, i felt my face flapping under the g-forces (we hit about 4 G's), and felt more like a fighter-pilot than I ever thought I could. Extremely fun! Our instructors were both exceptionally nice, knowledgeable and patient. We had a blast.
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