The most crucial thing is to learn the craft: how to string sentences together, how to make your dialogue sound like real people, how to properly pace a story, how to develop interesting characters.

Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.

Here you are truly separate from the earth, at least for a little while, removed from the cares and concerns that occupy you on the ground.

The hard, inescapable reality is that anyone who flies may die in an airplane.

A little mountain will kill you just as dead as a big one if you fly into it.

Here above the farms and ranches of the Great Plains aviation lives up to the promise that inspired dreamers through the ages. Here you are truly separate from the earth, at least for a little while, removed from the cares and concerns that occupy you on the ground. This separation from the earth is more than symbolic, more than a physical removal - it has an emotional dimension as tangible as the wood, fabric, and steel that has transported you aloft.

All really great flying adventures begin at dawn.