Do Purist Exhibit Higher Testosterone Levels ?

Eric and Mark,
Thanks for drifting this thread from goofy humor to interesting soaring history. RAS needs more thread evolution like this.
Well done!
C.

There is no way to compare a pilot with an engine to a pilot without an engine.
Completely different world view.
Completely different set of choices regarding difficult weather.
Not on the same planet.

I moved this to a new thread, as it seemed to go in a different direction than Bob's original
conversation starter.
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Guy Acheson wrote on 4/9/2021 8:51 PM:

There is no way to compare a pilot with an engine to a pilot without an engine.

We (you excepted, of course) do it all the time - easy peasy.

Completely different world view.

Not the ones I know, and after 26 seasons with a motorglider, I know a LOT of motorglider pilots.

Completely different set of choices regarding difficult weather.

See above.

Not on the same planet.

All the motorglider pilots I know started in unpowered gliders, then after many years, switched
to motorgliders, which they then flew mostly like they did before. Having a motor can encourage
taking more risks with the weather with some pilots, but not the "off the charts" extent you
seem to think. You can sometimes see similar behavior in an unpowered pilot that has a great
crew eager to do a retrieve. Henry Combs was the epitome of this behavior, more adventurous
than almost any other pilot (motorized or not) I've known, but there were/are number of them in
the Crystal Squadron following in his wing wake, and all without motors.

My view is most motorglider pilots don't take much advantage of the exploring that is more
available to motorglider pilots; that is, they continue to fly like they did when they were
"purists", and are just happy to have a launch when desired, and getting home in time for dinner.

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- "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation"
https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...ad-the-guide-1

Goofed the first time, but now the new thread is started. Please use that one, so all the
replies stay together.

Eric Greenwell wrote on 4/10/2021 2:37 PM:
I moved this to a new thread, as it seemed to go in a different direction than Bob's original
conversation starter.
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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

The role of T in life is more complicated than popular cultures masculinity bashing lets on.
'We find that winners of chess tournaments show higher T levels than do losers.'
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2786687?seq=1
The motor/non motor fancy plastic glider divide is not divided enough the real question is: Do 1-26 pilots have the highest tea of all?

On Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 6:08:16 PM UTC-7, Gregg Ballou wrote:
The role of T in life is more complicated than popular cultures masculinity bashing lets on.
'We find that winners of chess tournaments show higher T levels than do losers.'
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2786687?seq=1
The motor/non motor fancy plastic glider divide is not divided enough the real question is: Do 1-26 pilots have the highest tea of all?

We do have at least one example of I'm better than you syndrome for the "purists". I always wondered about the guys that had to brag about how manly they are.
If you are a true purist don't use a motor (foot ,gravity, or shock cord only) to launch or retrieve. If a motor is involved you are no purist. When I spent 20 years foot launching I still had a motor to take me to the spot I could be pure and fly off the hill.

On Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 10:19:25 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 6:08:16 PM UTC-7, Gregg Ballou wrote:
The role of T in life is more complicated than popular cultures masculinity bashing lets on.
'We find that winners of chess tournaments show higher T levels than do losers.'
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2786687?seq=1
The motor/non motor fancy plastic glider divide is not divided enough the real question is: Do 1-26 pilots have the highest tea of all?
We do have at least one example of I'm better than you syndrome for the "purists". I always wondered about the guys that had to brag about how manly they are.
If you are a true purist don't use a motor (foot ,gravity, or shock cord only) to launch or retrieve. If a motor is involved you are no purist. When I spent 20 years foot launching I still had a motor to take me to the spot I could be pure and fly off the hill.
Paraglider pilots that don't own a car are the winners?

On Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 9:08:16 PM UTC-4, Gregg Ballou wrote:
The role of T in life is more complicated than popular cultures masculinity bashing lets on.
'We find that winners of chess tournaments show higher T levels than do losers.'
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2786687?seq=1
The motor/non motor fancy plastic glider divide is not divided enough the real question is: Do 1-26 pilots have the highest tea of all?
Gregg, I will say that 1-26 pilots in general have higher levels of tea than motorglider drivers. I certainly have strong opinions about motorglider drivers, several are friends of mine and I take shots at them all the time, they even laugh on the radio at Seminole Lakes Motor Glider Club when I call them on the freq and ask if anybody is flying their motorgliders out of Seminole. One guy responded on OLC and told me to get my butt out of that towplane and go fly gliders.