Aviation and blogging are my full-time passions
I’ve been asked a couple of times if this blog is kind of substitute for flying while my airborne activities are reduced. I don’t need to think a lot to answer this question: Yes, indeed, but no as well. I definitely still have the aviation virus running through my veins, and a serious will to restart flying as soon as time and money will allow for it. I started blogging here before I had to refrain from flying because of our move to the Frankfurt area, so this blog is not only for compensating the lack of flying.
Being the editor of this blog generated many opportunities, and getting in touch with many of you would not have been possible without it, and this is certainly the biggest reward of it, but not the only one. Did I expect all of that when I started ? No, not that much. Do I now expect more ? Yes. Even if I could restart flying twice a week tomorrow, I would continue to publish here, and share this passion.
This post is not the first one on this topic, click here to read more about how my passion for aviation sometimes invades other parts of my life. When I had to reduce my flying activities, I was somehow afraid of seeing the passion fade away, but this is by far not the case. The way I’m living it daily evolves, together with my new environment, and reading and writing about aviation almost daily creates a very storng link to this community. I’m not sure that I could live without it now. Is that a new form of my addiction to aviation ? Yes, it is.
The picture decorating this post is a perfect illustration of the daily impact of my passion for flying and aviation. I took it while we were playing in a parc with our daughter. I had the camera with me, to get some photos to send to the family, and for our private albums, but when I saw this perfectly clear and clean track in the sky, I could not resist to picture it. I did not even think, but simply took it. I can not be outdoors without looking at the sky. I can’t be in an airport without getting excited. I can hardly cope with the concept of flying an airliner in an aisle seat.
The same applies to this blog, and the Internet. Even when I’m on leave, or away from home, I try to connect at least daily to read my e-mails, read other aviation blogs, and possibly work on future posts. While I was in London, I got free WiFi connection at the hotel. Earlier this summer, when we went to London and Switzerland, I managed to get connected via our hosts, or free hotspots I know. Even when I was in Cannes, doing my initial G1000 training, and then to renew my IR rating, I used the FTO or hotel access-points.
This blog is the product of three passions: IT, writing, and aviation – this is the sequence in which I found out about them in my life. Being a software guy, I like to play with the wordpress engine behind it, modify code here and there, add new plugins, and analyze the stats. As an amateur writer, seeing my words going online, and getting feed-back and interaction with you is really good. Finally, as an aviation enthusiast, sharing the passion with other, encouraging some, getting opinion from others, and creating the discussion general aviaiton needs is really cool.
So if I had only one thing to wish for this 501st post is a long life to aviation, particularly general aviation, and to the explosive mixture of passions that bring me back to my keyboard each and every day. I hope that I’ll be able to keep going as long as there will be tracks in the sky, as the one in this wonderful picture.
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