“You can always tell when a man has lost his soul to flying. The poor bastard is hopelessly committed to stopping whatever he is doing long enough to look up and make sure the aircraft purring overhead continues on course and does not suddenly fall out of the sky. It is also his bound duty to watch every aircraft within view take off and land.”
-- Ernest K. Gann, Fate is the Hunter
Now here's a sight you don't often get to see: DFW Airport off the wing of a Cessna 172.
There were airliners landing beneath me, but I swear I had a controller's clearance to be there!
Trust me!