I started flying in my thirties and after 17 years and many ups and downs, this sums it up for me:-
Each time I get the chance to sit in a hover, maybe a high-ish hover, and the heli just stays there like I have nothing to do with, and I can look in any direction with impunity, including straight down and still stay precisely over the same piece of ground, and it doesn't matter what heli, small piston, small turbine, light twin, larger twin, I can't ask was it worth it - I can't ask because I've got a silly grin on my increasingly wrinkly old face!
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