My First Small Aircraft Flying Experience with Aero Club Ushuaia, ARGENTINA

Upon arriving Ushuaia, Argentina I often see the light aircraft venturing the sky. Thus, I asked one of the local tour operator out of curiosity and it wasn’t expensive. Half an hour flight cost around US$ 70 and an hour flight cost around US$ 120.

I never had an experience flying with a small aircraft before so I will not miss this opportunity. Together with buddy “Double Zero” Rate De Silva, we went to the Aero Club Ushuaia Airport with one reason and one reason only, FLYING!

“Double Zero” had his flying experience with small aircraft in Africa and he warned me about “airsick”. He told me the “air pockets” will cause dizziness and I might puke. “Air pockets” or clear-air turbulence is caused when bodies of air moving at widely different speeds meet. Well, I took my chances.

We booked our seats on the 4 seater Piper Cherokee air craft. This was how it looks like from my view. The picture shows the cockpit of the Piper Cherokee.

Well, camwhoring session. Me and “Double Zero” behind. It was quite small inside, but it was cozy enough to take pictures.

The pilot is ready to go! And after minutes, we are flying!!

It was that bad after all. The “air pockets” wasn’t that bad. We slowly flew across the snow capped mountains of Ushuaia and other part region of Tierra Del Fuego. This was the snow capped mountains and this was during summer! Imagine during winter time, the whole scenery will turned white!

My dizzy moments would be during a few occasions, I asked the pilot to fly nearer and so we flew lower in circles. It was an awesome experience, like in the movies where the airplane went lower and make circles. We had fun alright but the tummy didn’t.

Thank god, I had a light meal if not I would have puke.

After viewing the mountains and flying across the Beagle Channel, we finally flew back to Ushuaia. This was the aerial view of Ushuaia, Argentina.

Well, playing time was over and we flew back to the small airport of Aero Club Ushuaia. We had a great smooth landing and 1 hour of amazing flying time.

The pilot was a real fun fella, though his English was poor but he never give up explain the places to us in English. This was me and him. I tipped him at the end of the day.

It was worthwhile and fun experience. Please do check out their website here at www.aeroclubushuaia.org.ar

We had fun!

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