Only a hang glider pilot. But I remember that first soaring ridge flight, then that first serious thermal to 2000 ft above the English hills and how the world looked, the first cross country flight... and on and on. Each achievement is forever. Each a flight a mixture of faith, and hopeful expectation, increasingly richly awarded. That first flight down Glen Coe from the White Corrie launch, Munro by Munro. What an unfolding adventure and discovery, thermal, wave, wind convergence, .. that time 14,000ft over Segovia in central Spain... now I have no more goals just to keep my oar in when I can.