GTA Progress Report #7

Thought I'd given up, did you? Or maybe you hoped I did.

I decided to stop playing for a while in hope that, like with previous missions, if I took a small break, I'd be able to complete the the pain in the butt flying mission on my first attempt back in the game. And I did!

In this particular flying mission, I had to fly across town at tree top level and make a drop off. This was very frustrating but finally, I managed to do it without crashing or being detected. Yay!

This opened another mission where I had to ride a motorcycle up a ramp and onto a plane about to take-off. The trick is, you have to avoid the barrels being offloaded at the same time. Sort of like Donkey Kong but you can't jump the barrels on your motorcycle. I kept falling off my bike the first few times I tried this but I did manage to board the plane, kill all the agents, steal a parachute and plant a bomb. Then I jumped out of the plane. The only downside to this mission was that I deployed my parachute *way* too early and had to float to the ground very, very slowly.

Anyway, it ended up taking about 10 minutes real time to hit the ground - good thing there was cricket on so that I could flick back and forth while floating.

Finally, the ground came into sight...and I landed on my face. You'd think that after all that time in the air, I could have worked out how to land on my feet or at least on my backside.