On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 06:47:55 -0700, son_of_flubber wrote:

If you have the personality type that is systematic and not easily
bored, gold plating works well in a self-paced hobby. Sure, some people
have more 'go for it' in their personality mix and we need to structure
and facilitate their progress or they will get frustrated and quit.

An old hand wisely pointed out that I should savor all of the stages of
learning to soar (for example, the 1-26 phase) and not be in a rush.
It's all fun.

Have you added flying mini-triangles to your repertoire yet?

By that I mean a small 3 or 4 turnpoint task with your airport at its
centre and legs or around 12-16km (8-10 miles), so the entire task counts
as local soaring and that you can easily go round more than once during a
flight. You'll find that flying round mini-triangles teaches you skills,
particularly if you use them as practise for staying high while going
faster, that you won't get from flying between randomly picked thermals.


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