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Posted by Ray
on 7/8/2009, 6:11 am, in reply to "Re: Learning"
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Jack...dittos on Chuck's incisive and candid comments...you have taken the first step towards more serious XC work! Specifically, cutting the string to your mother airport. No, you don't HAVE TO land on the airport. I can still clearly see in the mind's eye a 2-33 trying to get back from the ridge, getting lower and lower, finally landing amongst bushes and trees only about 20 yards east of the fence between our hangar and the school buses. Fortunately no one hurt. The PIC was a very experienced pilot! An altruistic person, who had worked hard all day instructing, but who was getting on in years and dehydrated to boot. Plenty of fields like yours available to him...but when your judgement is clouded...
The 1-26 is a marvelous introductory XC ship. I've had lots of off-DSV landings in it, but only one at another airport. One wasn't even in a field, but rather a gentleman's front yard! "Gentleman", because I landed just when a school bus discharged a bunch of kids, who were kidding him on his new "airport", and he didn't call the sheriff.
As for penetration, which we all want more of and are spoiled by the glass ships: if the cloud base winds are moderate (say 10 or 20 kts) and you are lucky enough to have streets, the 1-26 will go: the airport landing mentioned above was St. Catherine's.
Ray
--Previous Message--
: 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
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: --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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