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When you are robotically rolling to unload Gs does it still make your heart go boom!?? I love the idea of flying. I see crop dusters and private planes flying

• HeyLaughingBoy 3y ago
  My Private Pilot training was almost 30 years ago, but after a while it stops being exciting. And that was a big part of why I dropped out: it had become about as interesting as driving in rush hour traffic. Like the situation OP says: you scan instruments to analyze the situation, determine what to do to recover and apply that procedure. If it doesn't work, or something else goes wrong during that procedure, you adapt to another procedure. Remember, that during every flight with an instructor, you're being trained on one thing or another, so after a while all the "emergencies" seem routine. You'll be turning onto Final to land and suddenly your instructor will decide that your flaps failed so you have to land without them, or just as you're flaring for a landing he'll tell you to go around, etc. It certainly results in well-trained pilots, but it also gets very boring.
  • wkat4242 3y ago
    That's why I like gliding more. It's really all seat of the pants. Not dominated by procedures and endless circuit practice.
• tverbeure 3y ago
  I once loved the idea of flying as well, and I have a miserly 18 flight hours on my record, accumulated 23 years ago. The immediate reason to stop was the fact that the more I did it, the more nauseous I got, but by then I had already decided that flying was not nearly as exciting as I expected it to be. Stopping was an easy decision to make. That said, I also have friends who still totally love it.