True, all too true.

I decided that a 90 degree crosswind at 20kt gusting to 30kts was more than
I should attempt in my Nimbus 2C so I landed into the wind at a neighboring
strip 3 miles away. The retrieve took 3 hours.

The first guy to show up only had a pickup, no trailer. (My car had the
keys in the ignition and the trailer hooked up to it.) "I came to get you"
he said. "With what?" "Where's the trailer? I asked. He pointed to his
passenger seat. "You can come back with it", he said. "Let me get this
straight, you want me to leave the glider unattended in a gusty 30 knot
wind?" Anyway, it took three more round trips to the airport before my
trailer arrived.

I'm finding that with all this 'no landouts' style flying, the very concept
of how to conduct a retrieve is getting lost.

Bill Daniels


"Chuck Griswold" wrote in message
...
Those short flights are not always a short retrive.
On my first contest I
went through the start gate and 'lawn darted' into
a valley just short of a
runway. The flight lasted about 15 minutes and 10 miles
but it took 14
hours to get me home. You'd think I would have learned
something from
that. Nooooo.
Chuck
At 22:00 01 July 2007, Dan G wrote:
At a comp in England last week someone made a scoring
flight of 700
metres - less than half a mile:

http://www.gliderracing.co.uk/2007/ER/76R_ER2007.htm

And scored 1 point.


Dan