“Why fly your own plane? Everyone needs a strategy to de-stress. Work is hard (and seems to be getting harder). Taking home each day’s worries is no fun at all. At the end of the week, I need a way to distance myself from work and put frustrations and problems into perspective. So I go flying. As pastimes go, it is relatively solitary since most of us who indulge do so alone. If you’re after sociability, stick to golf.
Flying an aeroplane can be a busy activity, and while you are doing it there is no time to worry or even to think about much else. A one-hour flight gives me a mental workout. Flying is, I find, the ultimate pick-me-up. It exercises different yet complementary skills to those I call on at work but it also demands expertise in multitasking and managing a workload. Just like work, in fact.”
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“I’m standing in a field with a 180cc single-cylinder, two-stroke engine strapped to my back. A large fabric wing lies dormant on the ground in front of me. I look over my shoulder, shout “clear prop” and press the green start button. The engine roars into life.
