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you know , at first it's a little

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unnerving because you don't have an

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engine , you don't really have any

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backup , but then you start trusting

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your instructor , you start trusting

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yourself confidence levels go through

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the roof .

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I want to become a private pilot by the

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time I'm 17 and then I also want to go

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into the air force and become a fighter

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pilot there . I think it'd be really

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neat to go explore the world and I know

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the Air Force will help me do that .

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Civil Air Patrol actually acquired

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these gliders from all over many of

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them , including this one behind me

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from the Air Force Academy and which is

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cool for me because I started my

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fledgling aviation career as a soaring

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instructor pilot at the academy and

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actually started my first solo here on

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this very glider because I firmly

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believe in everything that civil air

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patrol is here and here to teach and

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what we're teaching them here is just ,

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is so important because it's

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foundational to everything they're

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gonna do in their Air Force careers ,

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flying off airspeed , altitude , energy

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management , checklist , discipline ,

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risk mitigation , all of those things .

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We're teaching the foundation here .

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My cousins actually called me before I

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came and were like we were looking this

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up , this is really scary . Are you

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sure you want to do this ? Yeah , I do .

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And my parents were a little skeptical

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about it because it's like there's no

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engine , you could just fall out the

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sky , but it's really safe and I talked

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to them and I joined and about 3.5

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years later , I'm here flying the

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gliders that I saw and I'm preparing

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myself as a leader and as a person and

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academically to hopefully get to the

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academy if you want to do aviation

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solar patrol is definitely the best way

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to do it . It's freeing when you're

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flying and it's like really just nice

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up there , it's calm .