Old Folks Poll

On Saturday, 7 November 2020 at 17:30:07 UTC, Phil Jeffery wrote:
At 14:32 07 November 2020, Roy B. wrote:
On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 12:45:06 PM UTC-5, Phil Jeffery
wrote:

Phil:
Did you expire in the middle of your post?
We hope not
ROY

Not quite yet Roy, thanks for your concern.
For some reason ras cut off my post. Presumably it offended someone, I'm
very used to that!
I was complementing your choice of subject and bemoaning now getting
competitively dicked by grandchildren of pilots I flew with in the 1950s
and
1960s.
Phil

For me, the relentlessly increasing time and effort involved in getting out of the cockpit with a chute on.

John Galloway wrote on 11/7/2020 10:16 AM:
On Saturday, 7 November 2020 at 17:30:07 UTC, Phil Jeffery wrote:
At 14:32 07 November 2020, Roy B. wrote:
On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 12:45:06 PM UTC-5, Phil Jeffery
wrote:

Phil:
Did you expire in the middle of your post?
We hope not
ROY

Not quite yet Roy, thanks for your concern.
For some reason ras cut off my post. Presumably it offended someone, I'm
very used to that!
I was complementing your choice of subject and bemoaning now getting
competitively dicked by grandchildren of pilots I flew with in the 1950s
and
1960s.
Phil

For me, the relentlessly increasing time and effort involved in getting out of the cockpit with a chute on.

More exercise, or a glider with BRS (that's my solution), so you don't need a parachute. Or an
inner-tube sort of thing to sit on, that can be inflated to raise you 6" or so.

--
Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me)
- "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation"
https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...ad-the-guide-1

On Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 11:04:44 AM UTC-8, Eric Greenwell wrote:

For me, the relentlessly increasing time and effort involved in getting out of the cockpit with a chute on.
More exercise, or a glider with BRS (that's my solution), so you don't need a parachute. Or an
inner-tube sort of thing to sit on, that can be inflated to raise you 6" or so.

Physical endurance for me... to rig, prep, move the glider and de-rig. Bending over rapidly during de-rigs and being de-hydrated at the end of the day browned me out occasionally. At TSA 2018 Std Nats while yanking on a 200ft water hose rushing to fill the water ballast, I tore my rotator cuff. Didn't know it at the time. Found it difficult to lift myself out of the cockpit after that. The annoying ache was finally diagnosed in Nov, repaired in Jan... and knocked me out of half the 2019 season. Covid took me out of the 2020 season.

I'm fine in the air, flying a contest... beating JB Chip B Thanks again for the complement on my forecasts, Chip

Walt WX

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