Flying professionally is a job.
Flying as a leisure and sport is a hobby; and a passion. Many are consumed by this hobby. They spend their waking moments thinking of flying, usually at the week end or when they can take time off work. What do they think about, you ask? They probably plan a week end trip away, or a short hop for the "hundred dollar hamburger". Given the prices of avgas, the more appropriate term should be the "two hundred dollar hamburger".
Leisure pilots run through their minds where to go, what to bring, what to do. But they also spend time reviewing their piloting skills and updating their ratings and keeping up with their motor skills in piloting small airplanes.
Suffice to say a lot of their time is consumed with this hobby. And they talk incessantly about their passion, trying to convince others that it is a worthwhile cause they are engaged in in splashing their hard earned dollars on aircraft hire or to some fortunate ones, their own aircraft. Pilots spend a lot of time surfing the net or browsing aviation magazines for their dream planes. They imagine what it would be like having the convenience of having your own plane. Maybe even buying a farm, building a landing strip on it, having your own hangar and the freedom of launching into the sky with your own bird, anytime the weather gods are kind to us.
Flying as a leisure and sport is a hobby; and a passion. Many are consumed by this hobby. They spend their waking moments thinking of flying, usually at the week end or when they can take time off work. What do they think about, you ask? They probably plan a week end trip away, or a short hop for the "hundred dollar hamburger". Given the prices of avgas, the more appropriate term should be the "two hundred dollar hamburger".
Leisure pilots run through their minds where to go, what to bring, what to do. But they also spend time reviewing their piloting skills and updating their ratings and keeping up with their motor skills in piloting small airplanes.
Suffice to say a lot of their time is consumed with this hobby. And they talk incessantly about their passion, trying to convince others that it is a worthwhile cause they are engaged in in splashing their hard earned dollars on aircraft hire or to some fortunate ones, their own aircraft. Pilots spend a lot of time surfing the net or browsing aviation magazines for their dream planes. They imagine what it would be like having the convenience of having your own plane. Maybe even buying a farm, building a landing strip on it, having your own hangar and the freedom of launching into the sky with your own bird, anytime the weather gods are kind to us.
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