You should try a glider flight with an experienced cross-country pilot.
Glider pilots regularly navigate their way for hundreds of kilometres across
all kinds of terrain using (solar powered!) ridge-lifted winds, wave
effects, and thermals. Many popular US and Canadian gliding sites produce
regular flights between 500 and 1000+ kilometres. Give it a try.
Ray
Invermere, BC





"G Farris" wrote in message
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I can appreciate the sensual thrill of being high
and riding the wind without the nuisance of a noisy motor, but it just
doesn't do it for me unless you're going somewhere. Gliders just fly and
go
nowhere.

"Pilot" means 'navigator'. If you want to navigate you need power.

GF