I learned to fly in the early 70s in Air Force jets. I learned to fly GA while an AF pilot in Alaska. Always carried a fishing rod and .44 magnum and often landed on grass strips in the tundra.
After leaving the AF in 1979, declining an F-15 in favor of a B-727, I accept a job with Braniff as a check airman and simulator instructor. That job, of course, went bust, and I earned my keep as an engineer while continuing to fly GA, finishing up flying a King Air for FlightSafety.
I just sold my motor glider and now have only my gorgeous Cessna 180K and a gyro plane that I built from a kit. Today the winds are 12G19, pretty easy but tomorrow they’ll be down into single digits with temperatures finally in the 70s, so I’ll fly tomorrow.
It’s really tough deciding what to fly today, but somebody’s got to do it!