Canada in the summer is awesome. It’s fishing for me that is my outdoors passion. It’s the rest of the year in Canada that is hard to take, especially as you get older. Rain and snow aren’t much fun when it’s the majority of the year.
I wonder what you define as a small sport plane… C-150? Icon A5? Citabria? Husky? There’s a pretty wide range there… not to mention PA-28’s and the like.
There’s not much that’s better - except for the part where you pay for the fuel…
At least they make you learn the rudder pedals! My only 'dragger practice was in a Citabria and a Cub. I also go to find out about full-deflection flight controls when taxi-ing too! (Windy place, Springbank airport near Calgary Alberta )
BTW - in one way a 180 is rather to the heavier side of ‘light’, isn’t it? I haven’t tried one without floats, but it seemed heavier to me…
they are very sporty, they do come after finishing the course and drink only alc free Beer
and aside from this i do try to get the Fluxkompensator inside my Gaggia Classic working:
Lot’s of what I do for fun involves my laptop = Linux, recently got into programing a blood pressure tracking app for Android, just out of curiosity, well and necessity. Boy, steep, steep learning curve
But this baby is for the time without anything IT related.
I pride myself with playing good enough so I enjoy, but not good enough so others enjoy
Apart from my job, I also enjoy studying music theory (harmony, counterpoint, classical forms, composition), and I also study the Middle Egyptian language.