Watch a legally blind man fly a plane above Southern California

Blindness is not typically a résumé booster in the piloting world (though Air India might consider it at this point), but Marc Muszynski, who is legally blind, is no aspiring commercial pilot. He just wanted to fly for a day. And he just did. Fly an airplane. As a legally blind dude.

Muszynski once dreamt of flying further, and longer – as an astronaut to distant planets – but as some cruel or haphazard fate would have it, he was diagnosed with cone-rod dystrophy (just watch the video) before he was even out of kindergarten. So early was this literal grounding, in fact, that it was not until years later, in the come-down after "visually impaired week at Space Camp," that he felt the full weight of his diagnosis. He would never be a pilot.

Fortunately, and we can't believe we're saying this, BuzzFeed turned up on the scene a few years later, and we now have the video below as visual proof that some spirits are just born to fly – and that our technological capabilities are officially amazing. Watch the video below, and watch the awesomely affable Muszynski, with revolutionary eSight glasses strapped to his head and an instructor copilot at his side, fly a small plane in 360s above Southern California.

Why they didn't score it with Blind Pilot, who knows.