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Let me give you this personal insight into the reason for this particular column. I am epileptic. Lost my medical about 19 years ago. For me this took some really serious readjustments. Flying has been a vital part of my emotional and physical existence for most of my life. I guess this peaked when I was partners in a Mooney M-20C. I was serious about my commercial and IFR tickets, although my real joy was stick-and-rudder flying in the Stearman. But during all this time my relationship with Flying, the only aviation magazine I've ever written for, was as simple and solid as life itself. I believed then, still do now, that of the growing number of aviation publications, Flying was mother and home. I rejoice in the growth of publications for general aviation, but from way back when it all began up until today, my relationship with Flying has been unique. Flying has always been the standard we could always believe in. There are many aviation publications. I have read them ever since War Birds, a two-bit pulp fiction magazine, and to some degree still have affection for them all. But when I got into Flying I believed then still do today that here was the aviation magazine by which all others can be measured. In any economic/social/technical revolution, some sort of leader emerges and is recognized. The emergence of Flying is not a random or haphazard event. The magazine has been careful and selective in those it promoted to positions of trust. ...

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