Fear of flying cross country

I found that my biggest barrier was the thought of the retrieve
inconvenience of my friends. Talk it over with your friends. If there's
no cross country culture at your field, ask your wife, your spouse, a
non gliding friend whether she'd be willing to stand by for a possible
retrieve that evening. This will cost you a dinner, and of course you
will have to compensate by volunteering for something else. I found that
once the retrieve problem was not causing any bad feelings anymore, I
went cross country much more aggessively.

anonymous wrote:
I found that my biggest barrier was the thought of the retrieve
inconvenience of my friends. Talk it over with your friends. If there's
no cross country culture at your field, ask your wife, your spouse, a
non gliding friend whether she'd be willing to stand by for a possible
retrieve that evening. This will cost you a dinner, and of course you
will have to compensate by volunteering for something else. I found that
once the retrieve problem was not causing any bad feelings anymore, I
went cross country much more aggessively.

Or do the same as often happens in my club. Its common for a few pilots
to set off on the same task after having agreed to a mutual retrieve:
those who get back go and collect anybody who didn't make it.


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