this hobby is the best. i am totally hooked as well as the rest of you. in fact it got to the point where when i was at work all i could think about was flying. it got so bad i saved nearly all my pay checks and as soon as summer came along i quit my job. Now i spend about 9 -10 hours a day at the field doing the thing i love. but i still work for a volunteer fire dept so i still do the other thing i love (helping people when their lives depened on it)