Great article. I've been lucky enough to spend just a little time with some really good pilots and have always enjoyed the experience. I attended a week at Uvalde with a friend/student of mine who at that time had just gotten his private-glider cert. We were able to get involved with helping out many of the US Team pilots and they were all really friendly back to us. I don't think they realized how much fun it was for us to help them. To us it woudl be the equivalent of showing up at a NASCAR race and during the driver meet & greet having Jimmie Johnson ask you to be on his pit crew.