First Soaring Experience

On 2005-09-01, wrote:
Tell the CFI you are studying for your CFI...
you can practice incipient spins...
a REAL hoot in a glider!

No need - everywhere where I've done any flying with a glider instructor
in a Blanik, spins have been on the agenda. They are fun. If I need to
lose height in the club's Blanik becacuse my time's run out, spinning is
the most fun way to do it. (Our club encourages pilots to remain
familiar with spins when flying solo, it's an occupational hazard when
soaring in the rather weak conditions we have here, trying to core very
tight and scratchy thermals)

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

Jay, give it a moment, and a few more flights.

I hear you, Jer, but I just can't afford *another* incredibly expensive
pass-time!

Blue (or, rather, bumpy) skies!

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

wrote in message ...
Jay Honeck wrote:

I don't really have any interest in getting my glider rating -- there
doesn't seem to be any utility in it -- but, man, I sure do understand
you
guys that have been raving about it. It's a real aviation challenge that
gives instant gratification!

There is an incredible amount of finess and control t be learned
and re-learned. The payoff is when you take Atlas to the
back-country of Idaho next year and can predict (within 10 feet)
where you will touch down... and how far it will roll...
and use finess, not brute strength and banging it down.

Did you notice the "touchdown to stop" distance of the glider.
Slow and in control wins the day... the Wright brothers were right!

Airplanes are for going somewhere...
Sailplanes are for going up and down and having FUN!

Did you do "roller coasters"?

Tell the CFI you are studying for your CFI...
you can practice incipient spins...
a REAL hoot in a glider!

It was great meeting you at Oshkosh... and on the cell. :-)

"Soaring is when you are going up...
gliding is when you are going down".

Best regards,

LtCol Jer/ Eberhard, Colorado Wing Checkpilot (airplanes and gliders),
Assistant Glider Program Manager, Colorado Wing, CAP

--
LtCol Jer/ Eberhard, CO-Wing, Thompson Valley CS., Ft Collins, CO
CELL/VM: 970 231-6325, CELL Message: 9702316325'at'mobile.att.net
EMAIL: jer'at'frii.com WEB: WEB http://users.frii.com/jer/
C-206 N9513G, CFII Airplane&Glider, FAA-DEN Aviation Safety Counselor
CAP-CO Mission&Aircraft CheckPilot, BM218 HAM N0FZD, 233 Young Eagles!

I hear you, Jer, but I just can't afford *another* incredibly expensive
pass-time!

Not as expensive as you might think. I paid less than $7000 for my
flying, in-annual (actually condition inspection), all-metal (can be
tied down outside, no hangar necessary) single seat glider. Insurance
is less than $500/year. Annual maintenance is less than $100/year,
though it does include a weekend of my time a year.

BTW, your kids can solo a glider at 14.

Since you have an airplane, you can choose any glider operation within
reasonable reach, and use the plane to get to the glider.

Michael

Since you have an airplane, you can choose any glider operation within
reasonable reach, and use the plane to get to the glider.

That would end up being the most expensive part, I suspect. The closest
glider ops are in Ames, about 45 minutes away.

I'd use the CAP gliders over in Burlington, but getting one of those (and a
CAP instructor) scheduled is ridiculous.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In article lIKTe.91506$084.52171@attbi_s22,
Jay Honeck wrote:
Since you have an airplane, you can choose any glider operation within
reasonable reach, and use the plane to get to the glider.

That would end up being the most expensive part, I suspect. The closest
glider ops are in Ames, about 45 minutes away.

Just put a tow hook an Atlas. You claim he can lift anything, and
you can trade off being tow pilot or glider pilot. And you just
solved the problem of how to get more stuff to OSH, since you have
your aerial trailer.



John
--
John Clear - http://www.clear-prop.org/

On 2005-08-31, Jay Honeck wrote:
A friend of ours has been after us to fly up to Ames, IA (home of "the
other" Iowa university, Iowa State) to go flying with the "Silent Knights"
soaring club for months.

You might want to see our Blanik L13, and what happens if you decide
that it's a great idea to floor one of the rudder pedals whilst stalling
:-)

http://www.alioth.net/Video/HatCam.mp4

(If you don't have what it takes to play MPEG-4 files, get VLC from
http://www.videolan.org - VLC plays just about anything)

You might want to see our Blanik L13, and what happens if you decide
that it's a great idea to floor one of the rudder pedals whilst stalling
:-)

http://www.alioth.net/Video/HatCam.mp4

Awesome! That's *exactly* what it looked like!

Would you (or anyone) mind if I added this video to our Aviation Video
webpage? (See it at http://alexisparkinn.com/aviation_videos.htm )

(And, dude -- you guys really need to invest in some "Round-Up" spray-on
weed killer before your runway returns to dirt! :-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On 2005-09-01, Jay Honeck wrote:
Would you (or anyone) mind if I added this video to our Aviation Video
webpage? (See it at http://alexisparkinn.com/aviation_videos.htm )

Not at all! Glad you liked it.

(And, dude -- you guys really need to invest in some "Round-Up" spray-on
weed killer before your runway returns to dirt! :-)

Sigh. There's all sorts of things we'd do with that airfield.
Unfortunately, things are 'complicated' with the owners of the field
(which is part of a farm). All being said, the surface hasn't held up
too badly since it's laid untouched since the end of the second world
war...

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

Jay Honeck wrote:

Awesome! That's *exactly* what it looked like!

If you like to see some more soaring videos, then this site has a nice
collection: http://www.alpenstreckenflug.de/text...flugvideos.htm

Stefan

Hope you do it at least one more time when you can actually 'soar', that
is, catch a thermal and go up.

Gliding is fun, Soaring is exhilarating!