just learning to fly is one of the most frustrating but rewarding things you'll ever experience over and over again but getting better I mean I guess that's relevant with life but definitely in developing a new skill especially a skill that you knew nothing about moments before and this has been a goal I've been working on for far more than a year over half of my entire pilot career it's not one of those things I thought of when I was growing up like oh I can I can fly I can learn how to fly but I
think it's something that everyone's always fascinated with the feeling flight or just having the ability to go anywhere that's kind of mind-bending [Music] I was trying to figure out what I was going to do after I graduated from the University of Kentucky one of my dad's friends one day he suggested to go take what's called a discovery flight and you'll go up with an instructor and you kind of get a feel for how it is to fly we just flew over the city and he let me take control of the plane for just a few
moments and that feeling is like it's one of those things that you can never once you taste it you can never get that taste out of your mouth you know it kind of showed me like this this is a Monumental moment in my life that feeling is like a feeling I've never had before and the fact that you can just go out to the airport and take off and be anywhere you want to be that's that's a feeling that not many people get to experience I think it's human nature that people want to be able
to do things that others cannot do whether it's um part of your Consciousness that oh I can do this and the next day I can't but it's it's deeper than that it's the the fact that I have all these experiences freedom is everything that that feeling of flight is is empowering so I always say that it's the only time in my life where nothing else matters when I'm in the sky I'm in that moment and you know I think we try we try often um every day to try to be in the moment but for
me flying being in the sky is that that only time that I can be in the moment Nothing Else Matters nothing else is on my mind just the ability to fly and the fact that I never even considered becoming a pilot or how to become a pilot it kind of shows that you can literally do anything I I think it's something not just being a pilot but there's things that people want to be but the only way that you're ever going to be that is when you just figure it out and go get after it
your abilities are endless your abilities are as far as your imagination can see if if you can see it you can do it you can be it it's just a matter of actually doing the thing I preach every day and especially right now in this moment that you can do anything literally the sky is not even the limit if if you can think about it if you can Envision it and imagine it you can figure it out you can figure out how to get there how to do that thing that you've always wanted to do
especially when others have said so this guy can't do that this guy can't do this you're not doing it for them you want it so bad that you will figure out no matter what to go get that goal [Music]
