Without flight, professional baseball teams are forced to travel by river ferry and bat to opposing locker rooms with precision-aimed cannons. Revel in modern movement with today's Groupon to Canadian Flight Centre at Boundary Bay Airport in Delta. Choose from the following options:
- For $175, you get an introductory aerobatic flight lesson (a $350 value).
- For $225, you get an introductory aerobatic flight lesson with video coverage (a $450 value).
- For $249, you get an advanced aerobatic flight lesson (a $499 value).
- For $325, you get an advanced aerobatic flight lesson with video coverage (a $649 value).
Canadian Flight Centre's accredited Transport Canada instructors guide prospective pilots and seasoned aeronauts through two-hour training courses in aerobatic flight. In a 72-minute ground lesson, an experienced aviator will help recruits get acquainted with the movements and procedures in the plane, as well as the proper way to pet the dashboard for good behaviour. After a tour of the aircraft and maintenance facilities, recent gravity naysayers slide into the driver's seat to chariot of a Citabria for introductory forays. Those opting for advanced lessons somersault into the purpose-built Super Decathlon, a plane used in air shows.
In 45-minute in-air sessions, new pilots learn to make the plane an extension of their bodies, with wings flapping like carefree arms over the lush local scenery. Intro students execute basic loops and rolls, and advanced fliers soar through an air-show-style program, which incorporates more complex flourishes and inverted flight. Video-covered sessions bestow new pilots with more than an hour of raw film footage of their session, recorded by multiple in-flight cameras to capture any mid-flight bubble-gum-blowing attempts. Both advanced sessions are intended for licensed pilots and serious flight enthusiasts.
Licensed pilots can log their video-covered flight as aerobatic training, which grants two free club sodas when mentioned at airport bars. Aerobatic flight lessons also make a great holiday gift for aspiring aviators.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Halloween History
12 AD: The first Halloween occurs when a frightened cluster of druids throw handfuls of candy to distract a roving band of ravenous moor children.
1931: Fearing competition from other sugared treats and holidays, The Coca-Cola Company teams up with Santa Claus to kidnap Harold the Halloween Horse.
1955: The most popular Halloween costume of '55 was the scariest monster imaginable, a handsome movie star concealing secret communist sympathies. The second most popular costume—cowboy?
1987: Columnist Whitley Gravers eviscerates the growing commercialism of Halloween in a scathing editorial, referring to it alternatively as "Hollow-ween" and "Shallow-ween."
1996: Alarmist parents warn their children not to take any apples from strangers, as they may contain the sophomore album Razorblade Suitcase by British grunge-rockers Bush.
2013: Halloween is cancelled indefinitely due to terrifying monsters becoming real the previous year, thus making it much less fun for everyone to pretend.
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