Surely it is safer to wear a chute than not? Is it not flawed logic to fly
one glider with a chute and another without?

I recently had a lovely experience flying in the USA, however I felt very
uncomfortable without a chute.

I have 9 friends whom I still have a beer with.....only because they had a
chute on. One of those is the instructor of the K21 which had the
lightening strike.



Not really...

Thanks for posting that, though. After filtering through the standard
broadcast TV BS, it made a really interesting story. Glad they came out
of it OK.

I would question taking passengers under a thunder storm. Isn't that
like poking a bear? Have I done that? Sure. Have I done it with a
passenger? No f**king way!

And yes, I still wear my parachute when I fly my glider. And it's a ram
air canopy just like shown in the video. Do you really use those in
gliders on the east side of the Atlantic?