"ADP" wrote in message
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This is one of the biggest nonsense myths in the soaring community. It
amounts to an irrational prejudice towards power pilots who transition to
gliders.

Gosh, don't I know it! After 2+ years of CFIGing, often teaching very
accomplished power pilots transitioning to gliders, I have turned the
tables. I am learning to fly the old fashioned way, bouncing around the
pattern and the practice area in a tired but trusty Cessna. My instructors,
who know nothing of gliders and have never before dealt with any transition
student, see many of my glider "skills" as a series of curious "bad habits"
to be corrected. (They were particularly horrified by my brisk, power-off,
stall recoveries) As they have no frame of reference with which to deal
with me, I just tell them to think of me as a primary student and start from
the beginning.

Vaughn