Learning to Fly

**Seeker** · 03-23-2004 07:32 PM

Guys I was thinking of this when talking to my adopted DV kid
the other day, wished I had posted it sooner.

Here is a song for my noob and all of you who are just starting out!

Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly

Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled
A fatal attraction holding me fast, how
Can I escape this irresistible grasp?

Can’t keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, i

Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings, I thought I thought of everything
No navigator to guide my way home
Unladened, empty and turned to stone

A soul in tension that’s learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try
Can’t keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, i

Friction lock - set.
Mixture - rich
Propellers - fully forward
Flaps - set - 10 degrees
Engine gauges and suction - check

Mixture set to maximum percent - recheck
Flight instruments...
Altimeters - check both
(garbled word) - on
Navigation lights - on
Strobes - on
(to tower): confirm 3-8-echo ready for departure
(tower): hello again, this is now 129.4
(to tower): 129.4. it’s to go.
(tower): you may commence your takeoff, winds over 10 knots.
(to tower): 3-8-echo
Easy on the brakes. take it easy. it’s gonna roll this time.
Just hand the power gradually, and it...

Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,
My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air,
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
Out of the corner of my watering eye
A dream unthreatened by the morning light
Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night

There’s no sensation to compare with this
Suspended animation, a state of bliss
Can’t keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, i

CT · 03-25-2004 12:45 AM

*downloads*

**Alaurast78** · 03-26-2004 08:42 PM

We should all fly together in our dreams.... *imagines V saped formation of DV members flying north!!!*

**YULAW** · 03-26-2004 09:08 PM

Originally posted by Alaurast78
We should all fly together in our dreams.... *imagines V saped formation of DV members flying north!!!*

Yeah Alaurast thats awesome.. I can actually picture that. V shaped formation with me at the head of the pack. WOW! Haha

**Truthbearer** · 03-26-2004 09:26 PM

How come you are at the head of the pack....?

j/k Ice would take that position, if not he would some serious ass...

Anyway that would really be a cool scenario, meeting up in dream and wrecking havoc together....Dreamviews vs. The Dream World....

**Seeker** · 03-26-2004 09:51 PM

I can't help but think that would make an attractive target!

**YULAW** · 03-26-2004 09:54 PM

Originally posted by Seeker
I can't help but think that would make an attractive target!

Aha Seeker you're so crazy.. But thats right. If im not at the Head of the Pack then You can just call me Elmer Fudd!

Because after Im done with that Wickity Wabbit Im going for those Wickity Dweamers.

**Alaurast78** · 03-26-2004 11:21 PM

Hey it was my idea!!! I wanna be at the head of the pack! j/k Ok ok I'll give the spot up for Ice!!! I'm a follower anyway

Originally posted by Truthbearer
Anyway that would really be a cool scenario, meeting up in dream and wrecking havoc together....Dreamviews vs. The Dream World....

So would we all be flying with machine guns???

**Truthbearer** · 03-27-2004 01:54 AM

I guess that could work too....

**Kaniaz** · 03-27-2004 02:43 AM

I'll just throw things at you when you fly past then wait for you to come back then shoot you down and watch you all die. Then I'll go get my cat to do his smelly business on you and you'll come back alive and I'll pretend to go "OH MY! YOU SEEM TO OF ALL FELL UNCONSCIOUS AND LANDED IN CHOCOLATE! QUICK! LICK IT OFF!" And you will lick it off and it will taste bad and I will laugh my butt off and then the cycle starts again, but on the 84353553459th iteration there's a general protection error and operationgetalldvmembersincatpoo.exe will break with an annoying physical dump.