On 16 Feb 2005 21:07:24 GMT, Steve Hill
wrote:


..we've read it...we get it...

And nobody has bothered to look and see if any of what I've said in
fact is widespread. The reason is simple, it's easiest to look for an
external solution for an internal problem.

.and to say there are
no manual skills required, indicates to me...you must never have been worth
a crap as a sailplane pilot or you'd never say such a dumb comment in the
first place.

First ask me if I give a **** what I flew like. How well I flew makes
no difference now, it's relevant to nothing. Most are probably better
pilots than I was, but there are a lot of them that are not in the
same condition, I'm still living.

And if you'd quit trying to elevate soaring above any other hobby, and
admit that it's only another hobby, maybe you wouldn't drive people
out as fast as they come in. I have many interests, soarning was only
one, and not so great that I could justify sacrificing everything else
for. Those three years were pure stupidity. It's when I finally
realized that soaring WAS only another hobby, but one that was
preventing me from doing any of the others that I finally came to my
senses.

NOw if I could convince the one that keeps wanting me to come fly with
him, as a ballast weight in a 2-33, it would be alright. After three
years, one would think he'd get the idea that it isn't going to
happen.

Well, soaring pilot, maybe not.

Greybeard