Nice one
152small. I too have developed a habit of looking transfixed into the sky, trying to identify warm/cold fronts and different cloud types! Once you've been up there, you can never look back.
Good luck with the rest of the course and keep up the postings.
P.S. I talk to myself too! I'm soon to take my first passenger and I intend to explain it away as information sharing
P.P.S I've never hugged a plane
but I did lovingly pat the a/c that I passed the GFT in on my next flight