On Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 4:00:05 AM UTC-6, Jim White wrote:
At 01:45 04 November 2018, wrote:

After following this thread I'm nonplussed with most of the responses. In
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y experience, nobody but nobody can be told or shown or coached to fly
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untry. Yes, you can pick up advice, you can emulate things you see other
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lots do at your field or at contests, you can practice on Condor but that
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ll won't do much good unless you really, really want to learn how to do
it
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and - as importantly - continually strive to improve your performance.
I'd
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like to meet the successful pilot who credits his skills to individual
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ructors or fellow pilots who "taught" him or her to do it. Unless you go
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t there and fly, mostly on your own, away from the home field and in
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nging conditions, every day there's a chance to make turn points and come
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ack, you will not be a good x-country pilot. With that said, lead and
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w is mostly garbage IMHO.
Herb


Worked for me Herb. Reckon you should leave out the H from IMHO. Your
opinion doesn't seem very humble most of the time.

Story of my life, Jim White. Always had a hard time with humble-ness, humblety, whatever. Queen says it well in Bohemian Rhapsody:

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go, little high, little low
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me

Sing along, everyone.