* I'm still flying my "starter" airplane. It isn't big enough, it isn't
fast enough, and it damned sure ain't sexy, but I've never quite gotten
around to trading up to that Bonanza I thought I'd have by now. "Delta"
has taken me a lot of places safely and has never missed a mission since
some early engine problems were fixed a few years ago. She'll carry 600
lbs. of payload at 155 mph for a looonnngg time. Every time I start to put
the ad in Trade-A-Plane, something makes me back off. Some day I'll do
it - no, really, I will.

If she serves you well, hold on to her! To borrow from Richard Bach in "A
Gift of Wings"

"Why fly has nothing to do with aircraft. It has nothing to do with
'by-products', those reasons so often put forth in those pamphlets to
potential [airplane] buyers. If you find that you are a person who can love
to fly, you will find a place to come whenever you tire of a world of
TV-dinners and people cut from cardboard. You will find people alive and
adventures alive and you will learn to see a meaning behind it all. The
more I wander around airports across the country, the more I see that the
reason that most pilots fly is simply that thing they call 'life'."
Richard Bach, "A Gift of Wings"

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Good Flights!

Cecil
PP-ASEL-IA
Student - CP-ASEL

Check out my personal flying adventures from my first flight to the
checkride AND the continuing adventures beyond!
Complete with pictures and text at: www.bayareapilot.com

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -

"We who fly, do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with
this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet"
- Cecil Day Lewis -