Ross Younger wrote in
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I suppose shooting
an instrument approach and breaking cloud just above decision height
to see the runway right where you expect it counts too, ...

I still see the runway appear, as if magic (well, usually), and say to
myself "Damn, it works! Amazing!"

Apologies if it's an oft-asked question, but what does flying do for
you folks?

There are lots of different kinds of flying, as you know... from hard
IFR to "Sunday afternoon flittering around the area." Yes, I do get a
sense of pleasure from even the hard IFR. As George Peppard used to say
on "The A Team" - "I love it when a plan comes together." But I also
find a great sense of enjoyment are "recharge" from the weekend flying.
It takes just the right amount of concentration. Not so much that it's
tiring in and of itself, but enough that I am not doing anything else.
Not worrying about that project delivery date next week, or why that
R/W* signal has too much skew, or ... Just flying.

If you ever run across a copy, I want to recommend (highly) Frank
Kingston Smith's last book Weekend Wings. [Confusing... his first book
was Weekend Pilot, but the last one is MUCH better.] It won't teach you
a thing about thrust vs. drag, or airfoil design. But it's the single
best book I have ever read about what GA flying is really all about.

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