Flying has the strange effect of totally clearing my head of all thoughts and stress, perhaps due to the level of concentration.
My CFI also says this. She says she sees a lot of pilots who come from stressful jobs in London and enjoy GA flying exactly because it allows them to take a break from whatever normally occupies their mind, replacing all that useless stuff with good stuff related to flying
But it's one of those things you don't typically realise until you have your PPL - it's unlikely to make you take it to begin with? What we need is psychiatrists proscribing a PPL as part of an anti-stress cure
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