“Flying for me has been, in the past 4 years, a motivator to get me out of the house and socialise with other people in the hobby after nearly 15 years of depression following the death of my father. I had become very withdrawn and rarely left my home. Getting into this hobby firstly via fpv quadcopters, and later into fixed wing, taught me many new skills such as electronics, soldering, computer skills like video editing, and of course flight skills controlling my model aircraft , but most importantly social skills that I had lost over the many years of shutting my self away from life.”