Hello; I (kind of) quit flying when my flying buddie died unexpectedly. Nearly all my flying memories were shared with Al, It was just too painful to be reminded, That was over a year ago now, and I miss flying, and all the fun it is. I went to the lake today and one of the fellows offered me a flight on his LT 40 on floats. No one else was flying at the time and when I tried to fly inverted the engine died, the plane was high enough that I was able to glide back and do a nice dead stick landing that ended with the plane within reach of where I was standing on shore. All the fellows gave me a standing ovation! What a wonderful hobby! What a great bunch of guys.

I think I'll likely always fly model airplanes, I might take some time off from time to time, but I think I'll jump back into it.