Been over 40 years since I took my last go around. Friend has Aronica Champ out as I drove past our grass strip and he let me do a few touch and goes. I think about going to our local airport and getting a ride with one of the instructors then I get over the idea. I am 85 now and have silly dreams of past years more regularly, then I just go take a nap.
You got me beat. I’m just a 60-year-old spring chicken who grounded himself in 2003 because he was so obsessed that the hobby that it became too much like.
I still plan to get a checkride next year because if an instructor is satisfied that I’m safe in the air, it’s my outside confirmation that I’m healthy & safe enough to put my ass back on the motorcycle that I bought ~2 years ago and left parked after a year on the road.