Originally Posted by
MaxR
What complete and utter tosh.
Ill rephrase, burning Holes in the sky 2 miles from your home base is like going to tesco in your ferrari, fun a couple of times but ultimately not really taking full advantage of a PPL. Grow a pair and actually do something that all your ppl training has taught you to do. Ie plan a route, interpret weather, fly away, learn, improve and relish the challenge. Then you might feel like a pilot. I agree some folks are happy to fly in sight of their known features or airfields and that's fine, but I suspect the OP isn't one of these but that's all he's been exposed too, hence his disappointment with flying. See it all the time with my students. Fear of using their gifts.