Hello Tom,

After reading your comment about two hands versus one, I had a good conversation with my 14-year old student, today. We talked about adversity and how to handle it. So, from your comment we found a silver lining. That lining included how to handle adversity and also how to handle the flight control. It was all good.

You'll be pleased to know that we worked on that today. He found that the lighter grip (not the death grip) helped dampen turbulence. So I must say to you, thank you for mentioning it.

The other discussion we had was on handling adversity. My lesson to him was something that my instructor father taught me. He said, "Do not fear the winds of adversity. After all, an aircraft climbs against the wind."

Having said all of this, here is another good thing that came from comments about this really cool video. There is an interest in allowing the video to be more easily accessible. I relayed a reader's comment about YouTube having a way to protect the songwriter's rights. I forwarded this note to the video's producer to see if we can improve the video's access. The video's producer is a professional producer and she is excited to be part of our glider world. Let's see what comes of this.

Now, back to the cool video.

Raul Boerner