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Open-Cockpit flying

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Tweety

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A good article on the joys of open-cockpit flight.

https://www.avweb.com/insider/first-time-flying-open-cockpit/
Every pilot should have the experience of looking down, bird-like, on the landscape below unencumbered by aircraft structure. It also builds sympathy for those early commercial pilots who endured all kinds of weather shielded only by goggles and a tiny windshield.
 

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