Originally Posted by Chuck Ellsworth
The examiner who renewed my air show license signed me off as competent....but inside I had changed and felt it was time to quit so at the end of the 2005 season I did just that.
Now I sit and just plain miss those who were not so fortunate.
Being the best in the world is not everything because once gone the crowd soon forgets who you were.
Exactly, Chuck, exactly. Just because you
can doesn't mean you
should.
I realize that we all, as pilots, at least privately, believe that each of us is the very best in the world, and that when we hang up the goggles, the world will suffer a loss from which it won't soon recover, but really isn't it better to gracefully exit stage left than to burn up in an airplane? Does anyone truly prefer the latter?