I went flying once with a colleague in a light plane. Nothing spectacular, just a journey out and back of less than a 100 miles. He let me take the controls, and I was able to keep it level and heading in the right direction well enough. But I was not prepared for the geographic disorientation. You drive around on the ground, seeing things, expecting you would recognize them from the air...and you do. But what I hadn't realized was that driving around only exposes you to maybe 10-20% of what is really there. So, airborne, I had all this unexpected, unrecognizable scenery (buildings, land) staring me in the face, and I was hard pressed to identify things I recognized.
I went flying once with a colleague in a light plane. Nothing spectacular, just a journey out and back of less than a 100 miles. He let me take the controls, and I was able to keep it level and heading in the right direction well enough. But I was not prepared for the geographic disorientation. You drive around on the ground, seeing things, expecting you would recognize them from the air...and you do. But what I hadn't realized was that driving around only exposes you to maybe 10-20% of what is really there. So, airborne, I had all this unexpected, unrecognizable scenery (buildings, land) staring me in the face, and I was hard pressed to identify things I recognized.
See that is the part that would mess with me. I have mad respect for the ww1 and ww2 pilots.