On Tuesday, June 5, 2018 at 7:26:22 AM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
My 6th launch was my first solo at Dillingham Field, HI (plenty of
military, airline, GA experience).Â* Thirty-two years later, and on my
7th glider, I'm still the guy who launches first.Â* Who cares if I don't
stay up?Â* I'll launch again and have a great day.Â* Too bad I've only got
another 10-15 years left to fly solo...

On 6/4/2018 11:16 PM, Steve Koerner wrote:
15 starts here. Then three months later off doing intentional cross country. And 42 years more it's still damn fun. Hope the new inductee goes crazy with soaring too.

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Dan, 5J

Thanks for all the info & opinions. The info is very useful. Here's additional info.

The student was early thirties & had already completed the King PP ground school. He was very motivated. It was all aero tows, he flew three intense weekends. He had 21 flights when I soloed him & around 9 total hours. We had good lift so were able to do many stalls, steep spirals, etc.

Being that we are a commercial operation we can do accelerated training.