Nearly Mid-Air Collision at Estrella

... and my own lack of vigilance.

Yeah right, Terry! You might be the most vigilant pilot I've known in my brief soaring (but much longer aviation) career. You were in the back seat five of my first eight flights, two hours and eleven minutes if my logbook is correct, and I learned more in those five flights than I can recount with credibility, including a whole lot about vigilance that hopefully will stick with me. If this can happen to you, it can happen to Captain Safety. A heads-up for all of us.

-ted

p.s. thanks for the nice tow this afternoon. The two hours and twenty-five minutes aloft is my new personal best, and I couldn't even get it up! (Uh, the landing gear on the Pegasus that is. Everything else was clear blue fine...)