In message ,
Torsten Beyer writes
schrieb:
Amazingly, ive done two 5 hr plus flights in my cherokee. and if any
of you have ever seen (or sat in) a Cherokee then you know that is no
small task!! I had the one that counted for my badge last year, and

I have to admit I have never seen a Cherokee - I did mine in a Ka8. I
thought that was bad. I was wearing a T-Shirt and short slacks and
sandals :-). And then the thermals took me up to about 6'000ft. Ah, and
the hole for nose release had it's floppy cover lost the weekend before.

So, 5hrs and 10mins in the cold on a ****ty wooden stool (kinda) with
almost nothing on. I had a kidney cold after that - but so what, I had
made it.

Congrats to all who still do it in old fashioned gliders.

Whatever kind of glider you do it in it can be tough. A lot of mine was
on a busy ridge so my neck was sore at the end, and whilst it was a
glass glider (Junior) it had a bracket for a camera on the canopy frame
that dug into my right arm, plus I had a stiff right shoulder, so when I
got back to terra firma it was wonderful to finally be able to ease it.

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