Genghis,
Well said! I've tried to add my thoughts to this thread a few times, but kept scrapping it because I couldn't express my feelings properly - but I think you've done it for me!
From the sounds of your reply you've got a fair bit more experience than me At only a few hours since passing my skills test, I haven't yet had a chance to fly a taildragger (but I will soon!) or microlight, and I certainly haven't done any test-flying in Jaguars!
But despite that, there's so many things that I love about flying I really don't know where to start. The thrill of take-off. The beauty of landing smoothly on the numbers (yeah, right!) The scenery, the challenge of controlling an aircraft, the challenge of navigation. I still find that looking at weather from the air, from a safe distance of course, is amazing - knowing that I can fly around the shower just by moving a control, whereas people on the ground don't have that luxury. When I look out a window at clouds from the ground, I now see a 3D picture, whereas it used to be 2D.
And I've still got so many more things that I want to learn - both so that I can enjoy the learning process, and enjoy the skill I've learnt afterwards! Taildraggers, aerobatics, night-flying, IMC, gliders, microlights, the list goes on...
There really can't be one single reason for loving flying - the whole experience is just great!
FFF
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