When I was a little boy, my parents used to take me to our holiday house on a small island in the Hauraki Gulf. I vividly remember watching a Grumman Goose come in low over our house on final for the bay with its P&W R985s throttled back. The first time I saw that I knew that's what I wanted to do. I am not a commercial pilot, but I'm up there sharing sky with them every weekend I can.