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Feature Article: The Joys of Flying
Getting through your checkride successfully gives rise to a sense
of elation and achievement that can only be described in superlatives.
Just how it is described will vary but the glow lingers, lives
and grows. The more you fly the more entrenched will become the
satisfaction.
The better you fly and get the kind of performance you want from
the airplane, the more deeply you will sense the pleasures of
flying. Having control over a beautiful piece of machinery by
making it obey you gives you a kind of self-confidence and personal
assurance that changes your voice, your walk, and way of dealing
with people. Self-assurance can be used to great advantage or
to self-destruction. It is one of the most powerful assets we
can have. Only with experience can you learn to guide and control
the power being able to fly creates. The danger lies in that
the better you 'think' you fly the more careful you should be.
Over confidence is waiting in the wings to slap you down. Just
ask the pilot who has had a minor accident as to how he has been
brought up short and concerned as to just how capable he is.
I have a friend who had such an accident several years ago. He
flies but has not flown solo since. As I just told a student
today, "Mistakes are always waiting out there to teach you
a lesson." No matter how good you are, there are situations
out there just waiting to take a bite out of the unwary.
Every pilot who flies and survives long enough is going to have
phases of his flying life pass by during which he progresses
from one experience plateau into another. This may be by way
of ratings or hours but no matter how accomplished the 'Passages'
come one after another for those who continue to fly. The ability
to fly and the changes flying has made in you will be there as
long as you live.
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