In article om,
"Walt" wrote:

Mxsmanic wrote:
Walt writes:

That being said, the next brand new airplane I buy will be a CT. My big
iron, IFR days (KC135) are long behind me, and the CT fits my mission
profile nowadays, which is pretty much day VFR flying around Montana.
If I had 90 large ones laying around I'd buy one in a heartbeat.

If you had the means, would you go out and buy some big iron to fly,
or would you still stick with a small aircraft? Do you miss flying
large aircraft?

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Miss it? In a way. But probably not in the way that you may think.
People on this list who have flown in the military probably know what I
mean. And, I have two good friends, both retired, who flew 757's and
747's for an airline. After a day of flying we have fun talking about
those days over a few beers. But, one flies a Huskie and the other
flies a restored Waco. THAT is flying.

But, fly those big things for fun? No. If I had the means I'd still be
flying a small aircraft.

--Walt

A local friend of mine retired from United as #1 bid. He now flies a
RV-8 and a Baron and says that he never realized how much he hated the
airline job! He is having a ball!