GTA (lack of) Progress Report #5

It's official. I'm stuck.

Apart from dating Michelle, doing side missions and helping out that geek, Zero, defend his radio controlled airplane shop, I am officially at a standstill in GTA San Andreas.

Having completed my missions for Woozie and Toreno, I recently purchased the airplane graveyard out at Verdant Meadows. Unfortunately this means that I have to learn how to fly now. And I can't do anything else until I learn how to fly as I will need a pilot's licence to progress in the game.

There are 10 lessons and I have to achieve 70% in each to pass. So far, I can take off (Lesson 1) and land (Lesson 2). Turning is a big no can do. I don't even want to think of what the other 7 lessons are!

Lesson 3 requires that I circle the airfield. I can choose to do it clockwise or counterclockwise. Considering it took me 7 attempts to fly in a straight line, I didn't really care which direction I was going in, especially since I kept nose-diving into the cliff face. Trust me, the cliffs aren't that close to the airfield.

I tell you what, I cannot wait to get out of the desert. These cliffs and sand dunes are going to be the death of me. In fact, they have been the death of me... several times!

Clearly this whole flight school thing was very stressful so I decided to abandon it and do other things... Only to have Toreno call me every 2 minutes and tell me to get my derriere back to the Flight School and complete the lessons... Or I would never find Sweet.

So I decided to give GTA Vice City a go. Once you've played San Andreas, you can't go back in time. The graphics are poor, the movements are jerky... but I think that's because I have to improve my skills seeing as I'm starting from scratch. Anyway, I got wasted pretty quickly in Vice City so I gave up there and called it a night.

Tonight I'm going to try and pass the Flight School mission. And you'll hear all about whether I succeed or fail.