On Aug 15, 11:14 am, Doug Semler wrote:

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Huh, these have been interesting results so far (from the limited
sampling of responses). So far, it seems that family "history" of
interest in aviation is irrelevant, however, most people were
interested in flying/aviation from a very young age. Surprisingly,
the pilots that have responded thus far do NOT consider themselves
"adventerous" even though there seems to be an adverterous quality to
flying that attracted it to them from a young age. Perhaps it is a
risk analysis/management quality that most pilots don't realize?
Perhaps, especially considering that pilots have to measure risk every
time they go out. Three other things stick in my mind. The first is
that the vast majority of respondents seem to qualify themselves as
introverted. Maybe that quality contributes to the "i'm on top of the
world" solitude that one feels while alone in the aircraft? Thus far,
most of the respondents don't consider themselves to be type-a
personalities, meaning that they don't "need" to be in control of a
situation. Surprising to me, really, because being pilot in command
is the ultimate in control. The other thing is that it SEEMS that most
of the pilots responding consider themselves "both-brained" (neither
left nor right). Maybe this is a result of the computational side of
flying combined with the "art" of thinking in three dimensions.

Hmmm. More things to think about. We need a control group now g