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Old 01-08-2016, 07:22 PM
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Aviation happiness is:

Flying home after getting my instrument ticket. Followed very closely by flying my bird to OSH for the first time....41 years after attending as a kid.
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Old 01-08-2016, 08:04 PM
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Relaxing in the FBO lounge at the airport of your first cross-country, and looking out at YOUR airplane on the ramp......... Priceless
Aside from that great feeling my happiness moment is knowing when I walk out my door, my hangar is 40' from my house.
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Old 01-08-2016, 08:35 PM
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Default Happiness in aviation..

..for me, is seeing that spark in someone else's eyes, when they realize that something they previously thought was impossible, is possible. ?ven if they don't go learn to build or fly an airplane... It's an instant, momentary change their outlook, filling them once again with the magic of childhood dreams and hope.
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Old 01-08-2016, 09:23 PM
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Default Aviation Happiness is

A perfect 3-point landing on a freshly mowed carpet of grass.
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Old 01-09-2016, 06:02 AM
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Default Happiness is. . . .

the sound of my IO-360 starting. Only means one thing. . . I will be airborn in 5 minutes.
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Old 01-09-2016, 07:44 AM
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Default My enjoyment

Wake up for work on a weekday, check schedule......need to be on a job 150 miles south of here.

Walk all of about 300 ft to the hangar, normal preflight and weather briefing shows weather 600-2 at destination forecasted to improve. File the plan. Call ATC and wait for what seems like forever to get a clearance out of my back yard.

With the clearance launch into the soup around 1200 ft and break out into a beautiful view on top Riding the bus. Played with a pair of sunglasses to see the filtering effects of the prop arc in a video.



Broke out at destination with runway in view. Work for the day, load back up and fly home by 5pm local.

While taxiing up to the hangar a press of the up button on the remote starts the hydronic pump and the door raises to the up position for taxi-coasting into parking.
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Old 01-09-2016, 08:07 AM
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My current "happy moment" is:

...200+KTAS cruising LOP.




...next year I'll want 250
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Old 01-09-2016, 08:29 AM
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There are different types of aviation happiness for me--the kind that affects others and the kind that benefits me.

The first time my five-year-old nephew saw my plane he was having a bad day and acting up. He wasn't the best of kids on the ride over. But the look on his face when the hangar door went up and he was standing right in front of a real plane that he was about to ride in was priceless.

The other kind of happiness for me is converting what would be a routine 5 hour one way drive to one of our plants into a 1.5 hour flight. As someone else here has said, flying saves time and money and compresses the boring trips into enjoyable jaunts. Having that extra 3 hours available is a major benefit.
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Old 01-09-2016, 08:42 AM
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There are different types of aviation happiness for me--the kind that affects others and the kind that benefits me.
I have to go along with this one too. There is nothing like seeing the face of a customer who is about to take their new-to-them plane (or their plane with a new panel) flying for the first time. Priceless!
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Old 01-09-2016, 09:14 AM
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Coming home after two weeks of work at my rig. Grab a cup of coffee and walk out to the hanger. When I open the door I see it there, just like I left it...



I sit and have my coffee. I get up and do a preflight, pull it out, get in, and it fires on the second blade. I taxi down to the strip, run up and as soon as I break ground I'm truly free of all the **** I've been dealing with for the last 14 days!
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