For many people flying is terrifying but when you grow up flying, it becomes second nature.

Imagine this: waking up at 6:00 in the morning, the sky is still dark and there are no cars on the road. When you arrive at the Butler Memorial Airport-Bum, you step out of the car and immediately get a whiff of gasoline as you continue to the hanger where you manually open the door. 

You carefully observe the 1976 Cessna plane, looking for any issues, then you pull the plane from the hanger, climb in,  start the engine, and head off to the runway. While sitting on the runway and going through the checklist, you wait to get the all clear from air traffic control to take off. The all clear is announced and the plane starts down the runway, gradually picking up speed. You begin to feel weightless as the plane leaves the ground. Before you know it, you are 1,000 feet in the air, looking at the road you drove on earlier, watching the airport get smaller and smaller as you head to the Miami County Airport to eat breakfast at We B Smokin in Paola. 

After about twenty minutes you are three minutes out from Miami County Airport. You grab the radio and announce that you are approaching the runway. After landing in a parking lot made for planes, yes, a parking lot for planes, you walk into a diner for breakfast where you eat the largest pancakes you can imagine.

After eating and paying, you are back in the plane and pulling onto the runway. You go through the checklist, get the all clear, and take off. You watch the ground below get smaller as the plane goes higher into the sky. Then, you see something small headed towards you. It gradually becomes larger until you realize it's another plane. The plane goes above you, but only by 300 feet. 

While approaching the runway you call in, get the all clear, and land. Then pull the plane back into the hanger, close everything up, and leave, ready to take on whatever else the day has.