'Flying like a superhero': CBC's Paul Karchut goes for a soar at Calgary's indoor skydiving facility

Paul Karchut, director of CBC Calgary's morning radio show the Calgary Eyeopener, now knows what it feels like to fly.

Karchut experienced the iFlywind tunnel that opened this week in northeast Calgary.

• See Karchut and his iFly instructor soarin the wind tunnel in the video lower in this story.

"You're kind of like flying like a superhero in there" said Karchut, who is also a ski and outdoor lifestyle reporter.

"So much fun. I went skydiving before once, and it's amazing how close to skydiving that actually felt," said Karchut.

"Just the smallest little movement, the way you breathe, the way you relax your muscles, it totally changed how you were flying in there."

Along with the Eyeopener's Angela Knight as witness, Karchut took to the air with lead instructor Ryan Nichols guiding him calmly.

"He is probably going to be flying at somewhere around 90 to 100 miles per hour of wind, powered by four 300-horsepower fans," Nichols said before they got started.

"We recirculate air at up to 300 kilometres an hour."

Knight did a play-by-play commentary of Karchut's flight for Friday's Eyeopener.

"You can hear the wind through the tunnel. You can hear the wind increasing. Paul has the craziest smile on his face right now," Knight said.

"They are just going up and down in the tube and swinging around."

Nichols says they get consistent feedback on the experience.

"It is so much fun," he said.

Karchut says he will likely be back.

"As an adrenaline junkie, that definitely scratched the itch."

iFlyis at 811 64th Ave.N.E. and flights start at about $60 for two.

• Listen toPaul Karchut's first indoor flying experience at iFlyin northeast Calgary. Starts at 23:00: