Nice article on soaring on EAA web site

On Feb 13, 8:06*pm, Tony wrote:
this article was posted at soaring cafe. *there, the pilot who
actually flew the flight commented, saying:

"I’m pretty sure I didn’t ask Corey to pull up and then dive to put
slack in the rope on release. We don’t do that at Beloit and its not
necessary with the Tost release on the Grob 103. ‘Much more likely he
was too low on tow for a safe release and I asked him to move up into
a proper high tow position before releasing."

OK...we have to let the pilot off the hook on this one! When you are
the subject of an acticle you are sometimes presented in a bad light
because of the author's lack of understanding.

One of our local pilots landed in a soybean field a couple of years
back. Somebody called the police, and the police called the FAA. The
FAA told the police it was a "non issue". In the morning paper the
article read. "Glider plane crashes in 27 acre soybean
field....Crops destroyed" (Giving the impression that all 27 acres
were somehow destroyed, when in reality about 15 soybeans got pulled
off thier stems!)

We called the newspaper and asked them to retract the story and write
what really happened. We found out that the reporter did not even go
to the glider landout...he merely called the police station and asked
if anything interesting happened that day. The paper said they had no
intention of retracting the story or presenting what really happened!

Don't always believe what you read!

Cookie

At 01:55 14 February 2011, wrote:

We called the newspaper and asked them to retract the story and write
what really happened. We found out that the reporter did not even go
to the glider landout...he merely called the police station and asked
if anything interesting happened that day. The paper said they had no
intention of retracting the story or presenting what really happened!

Wrong offer. Tell the person who wrote the story to come on out to the
glider field and they'll get a free demo ride. Bring your photographer
along, too (photogs love subjects like sailplanes). Then once you've
given him the ride and impressed him with the operation, bend his ear a
little bit about what a landout really amounts to (or doesn't).

[But do try and keep him away from the ACA guys drinking beer on the deck.
He might get the wrong impression.]

Jim Beckman

Jim Beckman wrote:

Wrong offer. Tell the person who wrote the story to come on out to the
glider field and they'll get a free demo ride. Bring your photographer
along, too (photogs love subjects like sailplanes).


Exactly. You might even get a video out if it - like the one on the main
page of my club web site http://soargbsc.com, starring yours truly :-)
in the back seat.

Tony