1. Because it's the best way of getting away from the two-dimensional world of "the ground".
2. Because of the challenge in flying the aircraft the way the manufacturer meant it to be flown and feeling it appreciate careful, confident handling.
3. Because the view's better.
4. Because it's nice to look down on the public from time to time...even if most of them are hiding in their houses.
5. Because I am building happy memories to sustain me in my frail old age.
6. Because each day should be lived as if it's your last...one day it will be.
7. Because without a wife or children I answer to no-one but myself and my maker.
8. Because only pilots and skydivers know why the birds sing.
9. Because each flight teaches something about flying, the atmosphere, and the planet itself.
10. Because in 4.5 billion years time the sun will become a red dwarf and carbonise this incongruous planet and we all should see as much of it as we can before it's gone...forever!