Many pilots, such as myself, who enjoy the actual stick and rudder stuff, take up recreational flying as an outlet, but it also keeps the skills up. I fly gliders. I notice that Captain Pearson of Gimli glider fame, and Capt Sullenberger, of Hudson river fame also kept their skills up with glider flying.
This quote says it all ! I knew one of these fellows and can assure everyone that flying was in his blood and he loved it. Sure as G'd made little apples, his experience in hands on judgement saved his bacon and a load of passengers when the sh't hit the fan.
Maybe todays "managers" of aircraft no longer have the love of flying
"pilots" enjoy! Otherwise they, too, would follow the example of the two fellows mentioned in the quote.
