Flying (with a little help from Eugene, the senior instructor and owner of the Freedom Flight Flying School) Yep, that’s me flying that plane. This was another Seniors' Week activity and a very popular one at that. Even the instructor expressed amazement at the number of people signing on for this, sensing a whole new and largely untapped market. While almost everyone enjoys flying, young folk rarely have the leisure or the disposable income to do so and those in their middle years have other, more pressing issues on their agenda , such as getting established in their careers, paying off their homes , getting their offspring educated or simply putting food on the table, but I do think that there is another factor at work here as well. Google Earth views A bit of drizzle and turbulence While younger generations have grown up with cars and planes as a fait accompli – you take them for granted, use them as you need them, without too much thought about how...
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