My favourite flying is taking a 180hp 172 with a STOL kit into strips. Accurate speed control on landing is essential, you do not want to be floating. It's incredibly satisfying just finding half of the places, then to do a good landing is the icing on the cake. There is absolutely nothing like landing in the middle of nowhere (but with a pub nearby) on a spring/summer day; the smell of new mown grass and a hot engine. Unbeatable. It's why I got into flying powered in the first place. I think it's a quintessentially British thing to do.
Mind you, it's not the getting in but the getting out that you have to watch out for...
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