For pilots, high on the list of pleasurable activities, there’s nothing like sitting in a plane’s cockpit. The switches, the levers, the buttons, the radios, the breakers, the gauges, the instruments, the smell, the whole environment is one of life’s great pleasures for anyone in love with aviation. The experience soon becomes a love affair.The pilots who fly a lot, for them, the cockpit becomes a second home. When you’re sitting in the airman’s seat aloft, not even the IRS has any control over your life. Unless you’re caught in the middle of a thunderstorm or your wings are collecting ...