Barnyard BOb - wrote:

As best as I see it, there's only one certain way to avoid engine or prop
failu fly a glider!

Russell Kent

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Fly a GLIDER?!?!?!?!?

Surely, you jest.

It has amazed me how many power pilots
would not give our sailplane club ships a try.
Every excuse in the book has been used to beg off.

IMO, many power jockeys secretly fear embarrassment or worse,
when no engine is available to mask possible shortcomings of
basic skills and judgment required for true mastery of flight.

Barnyard BOb --

Now Uncle Bob, I have flown a glider a couple of times and lived to
tell about it. Of coure it was not by choice, it was when the fan up
front quit turning on its own. I was not embarrassed at all when I
walked away from them. :-)

Jerry