Author Statement

Okay. First things first. I've flown a plane - briefly. It was quite a small plane. It is simultaneously cool and terrifying and I can tell you that once in the air, the basics are simple. For directing it. Obviously, it gets a whole lot more complex when you factor in all the other stuff, such as take-off, landing, radio contact with air traffic control. Hence why pilots are very well trained people. But just manoeuvring it? Relatively simple. All Harry had to do was use the wheel and the throttle, which Clint told him about at the start. Harry's a natural and uses a broom, so he knows how to bank left and right, how to pitch the nose up and down and has an instinctive grasp of aerodynamics.

—-Chapter 7, First Impressions