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Posted by Observer for Doug B on 7/21/2009, 9:18 am
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Sunday, July 19 was a big day at Finger Lakes Soaring Club in Dansville, NY. Not one, but two students made their first solo flights. Dave Van Der Linden of Hemlock, NY, was turned loose in the club's Blanik L-13 by instructor Tom Roberts. After a picture-perfect 20-minute flight, Dave was heartily congratulated by all present, and was a good sport when the traditional bucket of water was administered by Jake Smith, 13. (Jake, who expects to solo on his 14th birthday in the near future, has a record of dousing our solo pilots for a couple of years now, and will do well to bring some dry clothes when his time comes. It'll be payback time from more than one soggy pilot.)
A couple of hours later, instructor Jim Rizzo decided he'd had enough riding around in the back while Mike Kostin, 16, did all the flying. So Mike took off by himself in the club's ASK21, and showed us how to get to cloud base before returning. After Mike landed, his mom played along, distracting him while the buckets approached unseen. The first bucket, the small one, was filled with confetti as a decoy. Dodging that one caused Mike to run straight at the big bucket, filled with real water. Who says we can't have fun?
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