Heck, I’d be ecstatic if I ‘only’ had a Cessna 172!
(Of course a Schweizer 300 would be more fun, if much less practical. 
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Also great fun is a Schweizer 2-32 or even the lowly Schweizer 2-33!
Damn, I used to fly a Schweizer 2-22. Those pics brought back some vivid memories.
a good list. I’ve always tried to push myself a little and it’s paid off in bad situations. I was also specifically taught not to get sucked into technology and that’s paid off in bad situations.
I learned to fly and am part owner in the plane I helped build. It’s 150 hp of 2 seater camping fun. Wish I could afford the fuel to fly it. Maybe Oshkosh.
You can do all 10 of those things all the time and still be a menace in the sky.
There is so much more to being a good pilot. A real pilot just has a legal license & medical.
There are hundreds of saying about airplanes & pilots. Some are cute, funny, right on.
Like:
The three most useless things in aviation. ( And some will argue about these. )
Altitude above you.
Runway behind you.
Fuel on the ground.
Step on the ball.
Altitude is insurance.
There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots.
‘You never can have too much fuel – unless you’re on fire.’
It’s Airplane Raffle time again. This one’s a '75 C-172. Got three tix last month, and just got three more. The maximum number of tickets to sold is 3,000. So I have at least a chance in 500 (0.2% chance) to win. Unfortunately, I lose when the odds are 50-50. So my chances are actually one in a million.
Do they shit in the woods?