Re the title of this thread: No one's going to put you off flying, only you self can do that.
Anyways, have seen a number of threads like this and started thinking why do people want to fly, well we can't, as we'd quickly find out if tried, but rather manipulating a machine that can fly.
So, is it:
- Prestige
- Some sort of romantic view of early aviation
- Earning respect
- Macho
- Love of machinery
- Unknown
- Uniform
- Fetish for cheap acomodation
- Add
For myself, a humble PPL, it's the typical engineer brain: There's a class of machinery, operating in a given envelope of physics, requires effort to learn to operate, precision to operate - ergo have to do it. Bonus: lotsa fun for self, family and friends !
Sorry if slightly incoherent, had fun typing this...