Hello. New member here.

Hello, all. I just discovered this site a few hours ago, spent a few hours poking around here, and joined right up. Permit me to introduce myself, if I may.

I took sailplane lessons 40 years ago at Sky Sailing, Fremont, to the point of getting about 4 solo hours in a 2-33, but other things happened in life, and I got away from it. Of all the stupid choices I've made in life, I then spent 40 years kicking myself in the butt over that one. Now at a ripe old age, I've decided to dive right back into it (about 2 months ago), essentially starting over as if a near-ab-initio beginner (almost). In my newly re-incarnated experience, I have about 8 hours dual instruction by now. Hey, I can almost keep a glider behind a tow plane already! (ETA: That wasn't true just two weeks ago!)

Poking around this site just in the last couple hours, I already notice two user names who appear to be people I know! (Hi, Buzz! Hi, Ramy!)

As a novice (effectively) student pilot, I expect I'll probably do a lot more reading than writing on this forum for the near foreseeable future. I'll contribute more later, perhaps, once, y'know, I actually know something.
-- J.J.
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