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Victoria Deaton wrote:
 
> After spending a few hours this afternoon looking at tied down a/c
> while waiting for a few to actually land and take off, I have
> determined that I am SERIOUSLY hooked on aviation. More than ever.  I
> mean, I'm twitching and spasming when I'm not at the FBO. I read
> T-A-P, wingsonline, and ASO until the wee hours of the morning. I'm
> reworking my budget for a Grumman by eliminating stuff like food and
> utilities. I spent 5 minutes looking at the insulated $3.99 lunch bags
> at Walmart and decided even that was too much since I could taxi the
> Cherokee with that money instead. 

Yep, that's addiction.

Top Ten Signs that You're an Aviation Addict
10. You speed dial ATIS
9.  You whine and fret on every nice day that you're not up in the
    air (instrument students and pilots add low cloudy days)
8.  You whine and fret every day that the wx is too bad for flying
7.  You get DUATS or a wx briefing on days you can't fly, just to
    see if the wx is really as nice for flying as it looks
6.  You get DUATS or a wx briefing on days with awful wx, just to
    assure yourself that the wx really would be too bad to fly
5.  You learn mental methods for flight planning, and spend boring
    meetings planning flying trips
4.  You calculate every expenditure in terms of flight hours (50
    cents at the candy machine every day that's 0.01 flight hours!
    100 missed candy bars would give me an extra hour in the air!)
3.  Your friends tell you you've spent the last hour talking about
    flying--but you've only been with them 10 minutes
2.  You'd rather go hang out at the airport than just about anything
    else, even if you can't fly

and the number one sign that you're hooked on aviation

1.  You buy a plane

Snowbird


