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I was reading a post that Clumpinglitter made yesterday where she was musing about exactly why she became a pilot.

Her outcome from having thought about it was that she flies because it’s “Fun”.

A very valid reason.

It made me sit back and think about exactly why I decided to get my own licence.

I decided my reasons were two fold;

First, like C, without a doubt I think it’s fun. My father was a pilot, and I’ve always enjoyed Flying. It was only within the last few years that it became financially realistic for me to become a pilot, so I took the dive.

But the’s another half - I enjoy the Technical Aspects behind flying.

I remember when I was still a student, and an increasing about of the workload of flying was being introduced. It started with radio calls, and progressed to simple things like flap deployment, etc etc. Of course, the workload spiraled upwards from there - but I loved every minute of it.

Everytime a new Aspect of a flight became my responsibility instead of my instructors, I just ate it up.

Basically, flying itself is fun, but my favourite parts are departure and arrival. I love being busy on the radio, making adjustments to the aircraft to make it do what I need it to do, and putting all of the aspects of my training together to make the flight successfull.

I remember when I first got my solo clearance to run circuits at Oshawa airport. I was in my glory - it was one takeoff and Landing right after another - the things I enjoyed most.

Yes, the novelty quickly wore off simply because I was anxious to proceed to learning another new Technical aspect…and running circuit after circuit did start to get a little boring after a while.

But, overall, I’m looking back on circuits now rather fondly again. Actually, it’s about time that I run a few of them again in order to get some extra practice with…you guessed it…the technical aspects of flying.

So, perhaps my flight this weekend may end up with an “Inbound for circuits” radio call instead of a “Inbound for landing, full stop” radio call when returning to CYOO.

It might be time to get back to the technical bits of flying - a single takeoff and single landing on every flight isn’t going to do me any justice when it comes to Staying Proficient.

And of course, Staying proficient is closely related to staying safe….