As a former USAF E-5, O-3, and pilot, I simply took issue with your lame
comments. No nerves hit.

I've no doubt that any of the USAFA grads who happened to participate in
the gliding program could have done as Payne and Sullenberger did. They
just didn't have the same opportunities to do so.

Oh, and I got my commission through OTS and discovered gliding on my own.

Dan
5J

On 3/30/21 11:00 AM, biff the dotard wrote:
On Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 10:24:55 AM UTC-6, Dan Marotta wrote:
Somebody needs to take a chill pill...

Dan
5J

Shack! Good hit on a nerve.

On the other hand, to answer an earlier question about Academy grads who are involved in soaring, Jim Payne comes to mind. Chesley "Sully" Sullengerger also flew at USAFA Soaring. His most notable gliding achievement was with an Airbus 320.

I know eight other glider pilots who flew at USAFA Soaring. None glided to 76000' or the Hudson River. But neither did they embarrass themselves and their alma mater in a spectacularly public way.