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Few will ever know our perspective: the vistas, the phenomenon and freedoms we are blessed to experience as pilots.
admonishment of “looking down on.” Few will ever know our perspective: the vistas, the phenomenon and freedoms we are blessed to experience when we’re up. The away part, whether while airborne or at our secluded destination, provides solitude and time for thought, appreciation, retrospection and a Zen like awareness of, well, everything those anchored to the ground can’t see or feel.
Non-Morons
Pilots are in a self-motivated, high-achiever and often philosophical, almost transcendentalist, cluster of apple- biting, clothing-wearing, non-moronic mammals. And with our
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One of the reasons we became pilots is the freedom to get up, up and away.
hobbies, side occupations and social visibility, we’re some of the most certificated, licensed, stickered, hang-tagged, evaluated, monitored, regulated and taxed of all segments in society. In Orwell’s Oceania language of Newspeak, this is ungood to our freedom.
But even with all of the regulations, licensing and certification that we endure, it’s mostly painless because we’re not morons. But we need to start early on the renewals in case we run into one of those dips in the road that sees things differently or doesn’t see reason at all. So unless we want attention from the Ministry for evading taxes, concealing our pistol, unauthorized removal of a gall bladder or to get caught with our participles
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