Every pilot starts somewhere. Maybe it was a discovery flight that lit a spark, or maybe it was a career goal that seemed within reach. But somewhere along the way, the line between passion  and progress  starts to blur. There’s the pilot who looks at every flight as another number in the logbook just a stepping stone toward the next job, the next type rating, the next paycheck. And then there’s the pilot who shows up because they can’t imagine not flying . The one who stays