Brian Hamilton's blog

Last year, before I started my first year of college, I was given the opportunity to learn to pilot a plane and actually gain flight-training hours in Flight School. Before we went out to the airport to fly we spent a couple days flying from the safety of the flight simulators at the planetarium. These simulators were useful in our training in that the conditions of our flights could be changed on a whim, if you wanted to fly at night, during the rain, or from any airport in the world, but also in that we could replicate our flight from the Spirit of St. Louis airport to the St. Charles airport where we would then stop in at the Creve Coeur airport before we even stepped inside a plane. This helped all us get use to the controls, equipment, and instruments.