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The airman’s love of the cockpit

By Gregg WendorfAdvance News JournalFor 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 yoke. 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 ice, all your troubles are below, waiting for you to land.

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