I just got back from a roundtrip flight to Central Florida for a speaking engagement, and even after all these years of flying 1,000-nm trips in light airplanes, I was still surprised by how starkly different the “out” and the “back” legs were.
This is one important lesson about transportation flying that no one ever taught me, either, and it should be a standard part of the New Private Pilot 101 curriculum. Plan for your return trip as though it’s an entirely different experience, because it very likely will be.
