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grass. The drop from 500 feet or so is made with the engine shut off, generally in a sweeping spiral or a zigzag drift to reduce the landing speed. It's peculiar how quickly you can come down from a great height. One second the human on the earth are dots and unless you noticed they moved you wouldn't know them as humans; buildings are little rectangular two by four boxes set in the patchwork quilt. The next minute the humans are waving to you and the hangars and buildings are many times larger than the plane you are rid [[strikethrough]]d[[/strikethrough]]ing in. The time it takes for the plane to change from the Big & Almighty to the Pigmy and inconsequental is what seems strange. If an elevator took you half as quickly [[strikethrough]] they'd be [[/strikethrough]] that instrument would be an instrument of torture for most people. But it's all in getting used to the game. I've found I like it in as many degrees as I've been through.