I started studying to fly when I was 16. Judge preemptively revoked my driver's license, so I figured I'd fly just to show him how petty he was. Up til then, it

I started studying to fly when I was 16. Judge preemptively revoked my driver's license, so I figured I'd fly just to show him how petty he was. Up til then, it had just been JetFighter II for me. This article nails it in the opening. I don't remember a whole lot about my first flights (well other than almost hitting a tree - JF2 was mostly carrier landings so I had bad habits). But the feeling of pushing the throttle, watching the marks turn to steaks, and the feeling of holy-shit-I'm-flying -- it's amazing. I recommend getting a first lesson (should be cheap-ish) just to feel that. In nearly 20 years, it's one of the top physical experiences I recall with exhilaration.