Yeah, I'm old, In my head! I guess I spent too much time camping in the woods as a kid. I learned you really don't need a whole lot of extra stuff to survive.

Did you ever see that Saturday Night Live skit from back in the Dana Carvey days, where he and another SNL member are made up as grumpy old men, sitting on a couch talking about how everything was better 'in the old days'?

"We didn't have seatbelts in our day, didn't need seatbelts! And we Liked IT! LOVED IT, wouldn't have it any other way!" That's me.

I'd still rather hand prop a Cub and land on a grass strip than turn a key in a Cessna, I'd rather fly the DC9 than the MD88, but I do love the 757, empty, doing a 'normal power' takeoff, now if I could just get one on floats...