Ben wins it for me so far, i’d love one of those calculator’s just to sit and fondle it and marvel at the engineering trickery.
Me? – sitting my PPl out in Zimbabwe in 94, Was out there for near enough a year visiting my cousin and everyone used their planes to hop about the country from farm to farm, Harare to Vic Falls, pop to Bulawayo for the evening? – why not?. Got offered the chance to do it dirt – dirt cheap (compared to anywhere else that is) as the instructor at Harare Flying club was a friend so thought long and hard for 30 seconds then decided “**** yeah! – that’s for me!” , first flight on my own, or rather in full control on my own at 23 years of age was flying over Victoria Falls, strayed into Zambia a teeny bit…ok…by a rather significant amount and got told off…..big telling off!….One of the most, if not the defining moment of my life so far – now’t else has come close to flying over game reserves and putting down on grass/scrub landing strips in the middle of nowhere and setting up camp for a few days and going native in the bush.
Needless to say i never flew when i got back to this country at all.