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Old January 30th 11, 06:05 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Mike Oliver
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Default Ridge Soaring?

PS The instructors also speak English........not sure about american
though!

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Old January 31st 11, 01:14 AM
Walt Connelly Walt Connelly is offline
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PS The instructors also speak English........not sure about american
though!
No problem with those who don't speak American. I teach American, Cracker, and Red Neck among other colloquial forms of speech. I can also give them the history of the American units whose boys died on Utah and Omaha Beach on D day. Those young men were fluent in American.

Walt
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Old January 30th 11, 08:37 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
jcarlyle
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If you're willing to travel, I recommend the most famous US site -
Ridge Soaring in Julian, PA. Tom Knauff and Doris Grove have a great
reputation in the soaring community, and will set you safely on the
right course. And I can vouch from experience that you won't forget
any day get the chance to fly along the Appalachian ridges when the
wind is higher than 15 kt from 310!

-John
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Old January 30th 11, 08:47 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
John Cochrane[_2_]
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On Jan 30, 2:37*pm, jcarlyle wrote:
If you're willing to travel, I recommend the most famous US site -
Ridge Soaring in Julian, PA. Tom Knauff and Doris Grove have a great
reputation in the soaring community, and will set you safely on the
right course. And I can vouch from experience that you won't forget
any day get the chance to fly along the Appalachian ridges when the
wind is higher than 15 kt from 310!

-John


For any ridge flying, google earth is a tremendous resource. Look up
the common routes, then "fly" them in the comfort of your lounge
chair. It helps enormously with orientation and gap-crossing when the
time comes to do it for real. You can even scout for fields.

John Cochrane
 




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