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Posted by Chuck Zabinski on 7/7/2009, 7:59 pm, in reply to "Learning"
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Jack,
What a great adventure! You did great and landed in a field and didn't damage the 1-26 or yourself. All of us at FLSC can tell you stories about the 1-26. It's a great little glider but penetration is not one of it's virtures, as you found out. However, on certain days you can thermal up inside the glass ship's circles in a 45 degree bank at 40 knots.
I have not landed out in the 1-26, but only sheer luck and chance let me avoid that fate. I have been in the position of making the field or landing out in the 1-26 numerous times but a chance thermal or bubble, not skill has come to may aid more times than I would like to admit.
Regards,
Chuck Zabinski
--Previous Message--
: Jack...you did a great job recovering from the
: initial (and not uncommon) mistake!
: Becoming a good soaring pilot cannot happen
: passively by reading about it. These first
: few lines from Roth's "The Waking"
: come to mind:
:
: I wake to sleep, and take my waking
: slow.
: I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
: I learn by going where I have to go.
:
: We think by feeling. What is there to
: know?
: I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
: I wake to sleep, and take my waking
: slow.
:
: Ray
:
: --Previous Message--
: Thank you so much to:
:
: Tom Roberts, who got his plane ready to
: fly, only to learn that I needed help. So
: he spent his day helping me. Later he
: disassembled his aircraft and put it away
: whithout ever flying himself.
:
: Doug Bradley who took this picture and
: spent the afternoon in the heat helping us
: disassemble the 1-26.
:
: Jake and Alex who helped take the plane
: apart in the heat.
:
: Bill (?) who isn't even a member, help
: disassemble and re-assemble the glider.
:
: Jim Rizzo, Esq., who loaned us his BMW to
: drive through the wheat field. We ripped off
: his license plate, and sand blasted (oat
: blasted) the bottom of his beautiful car.
:
: Mr. Marksus (sp?) the farmer who so nicely
: allowed us to trample down his wheat early
: this season so that we could bring home the
: 1-26.
:
: Kai Gertsen who instructed me on how to pick
: the best off field landing location. I
: would have surely paniced had it not been
: for Kai's lessons.
:
: "We learn more from bridges that fall
: down than from those that don't."
:
: I'm embarrased to say that the whole affair
: was avoidable. I learned a lot.
:
: "Too soon old. Too late schmart."
:
: This is a great club. Thank you all.
: Jack
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