Structural Differences in Gray Matter between Glider Pilots and Non-Pilots

Originally Posted by George Haeh

The non-structural brain pathology is that a certain minority of
glider pilots get saddled with the compulsion to send excessive
amounts of money and time on gliding.

The smart ones catch on and leave not too long after solo.

They get addicted to the "high" (in multiple senses of the word) of flying sailplanes, and become whacked-out adrenaline junkies. In between weekend flying, they sit bug-eyed in front of their computers, trying to survive the withdrawal symptoms, reading RAS and similar message boards and watching soaring videos on U-tube.

(Try to guess how I know all that.)

-- J. J.
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