Dublinpilot, I think there's a contradiction in your post.
I bet there are quite a few of us who have spent hour after hour passionately staring at charts, wondering where to go, drawing up our plogs and double-checking the figures - not only for flights we are going to do, but also for fantasy flights that we just can't afford right now but maybe next month.....
So if the passion starts well before the wheels leave the ground, and being an aviator is about passion, then you must start being an aviator from the moment you open your flight bag? No???
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