Bored?

What planet are you on??

We just go fast and work on getting faster! But then I live and fly in the
UK so hanker after those rare "good" days!

JC


At 23:04 05 September 2013, son_of_flubber wrote:
I fly in New England and staying up in the air is challenging on the
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ty of "flyable days". Every so often, we get a booming day (like today)
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d I commonly end up saying (and I hear other pilots saying), "It was so
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y to stay up, I got bored."

So what happens when a pilot who is used to scrapping for lift goes to
the
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land of big, strong, and reliable thermals? Does the pilot get bored?
Or
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does the pilot find other challenges to keep things interesting (like
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g 300 km tasks and landing out on top of mountains).