Something I wished I'd said earlier is troubling me - I mean in terms of getting it over.
Most here, certainly the majority, can drive. Remember when you could only change gear by actually looking down at it? Soon passes and becomes utterly automatic.
Well at some point in your flying career a huge proportion of your everyday routine flight has reached that category. Yup, I know we're always learning but by then such advances are now incremental.
There is a percentage of pilots who develop an itch, a very persistent and definite itch which I can only sum up as a realisation that flying isn't satifying some vital part of their brain, intellect or personality. How they deal with it is entirely different - some climb into management, some start a business, some take up a totally engrossing sport. Whichever way they go they strive to cut down the amount of flying they do so they can satisfy another part of their personal makeup. This desire can become very strong indeed and what I'm trying to describe is in no way a criticism. It seems that over the years most of my true friends in aviation actually need something other than just flying to feel complete.
I'm certain that a proportion of you are actually the same and in terms of an entire career would get more out of life by funding flying through a more stimulating and challenging use of your curiousity and intellect.
Regards
Rob Lloyd