> When I fly as a pilot myself, I've always tried to land at as many airports as possible, to learn a little about each one. Oh I loved this during my training

> When I fly as a pilot myself, I've always tried to land at as many airports as possible, to learn a little about each one. Oh I loved this during my training and hour building as well, pick a small airfield at random within a 1 to 2 hours flying from home and go there just to see it. It's amazing how many small airports have good food and friendly people to tell you something about the area. And then later had a similar game for a while when I got my instrument rating: Pick a random airport and see what kind of interesting approach procedure they have. ATC had some funny reactions when you ask for the "full procedure NDB/DME" instead of vectors to the ILS, because everybody hates NDB approaches and nobody wants to fly a full procedure if a shortcut is available. Except for those that just need hours and like a challenge :-)