Personal bests and records climbing in Calif

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Just remember, various critics of lowly gliders: If
all those horrible, cheap, clunky gliders disappeared,
YOUR glider would be at the bottom of the list of what's
good, and the rest of those pilots still flying would
be kicking dirt in YOUR face.

There is dignity in flying any kind of glider. If
you don't believe that, then you are attempting to
use gliding as a social weapon instead of sport or
recreation. Can you not endure the thought that lowly
pilots without your status are having as much fun as
you?

Nyal Williams wrote in message ...
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Just remember, various critics of lowly gliders: If
all those horrible, cheap, clunky gliders disappeared,
YOUR glider would be at the bottom of the list of what's
good, and the rest of those pilots still flying would
be kicking dirt in YOUR face.

There is dignity in flying any kind of glider. If
you don't believe that, then you are attempting to
use gliding as a social weapon instead of sport or
recreation. Can you not endure the thought that lowly
pilots without your status are having as much fun as
you?

Very well said....flying in a glider is phenomenal. If people are
doing it because of wrong reasons then....

There is dignity in flying any kind of glider. If
you don't believe that, then you are attempting to
use gliding as a social weapon instead of sport or
recreation.

I completely agree with that. However, do not confuse flying a glider
with training to fly a glider. For the latter there are better gliders
than a 2-33 - and I've got about 300 hours in the back seat of one.

Tony V.

Tony Verhulst wrote in message ...
There is dignity in flying any kind of glider. If
you don't believe that, then you are attempting to
use gliding as a social weapon instead of sport or
recreation.

I completely agree with that. However, do not confuse flying a glider
with training to fly a glider. For the latter there are better gliders
than a 2-33 - and I've got about 300 hours in the back seat of one.

Tony V.

Thanks, Tony, that is exactly the point I was trying to make. I have
time in a lot of Schweitzer gliders - 2-22, 2-33, 2-32, 1-23, 1-26,
and 1-34 - and enjoyed flying all of them. I love the 1-23 and 2-32,
in particular.

But I didn't teach my son to drive in a Model T on dirt roads...

Oops, now that will start another war!

Anyway, all you 2-33 fans, get out there and fly the beasts (as I will
this winter giving rides)! Gotta admit, you can't beat flying around
with the window down and your elbow in the breeze on a hot summer day,
with a sweet young thing sitting there just inches in front...

Kirk

3 hour flight yesterday in "Delilah" our 2-33A.

The Buzzards did not seem to care whether we were carbon fiber, glass
or a "tin bird". Still climbs and still soaring.

Anyway you look at it, beats staying on the ground.

Michael Henderson