Lookin' for the Cherokee Kid

On Jun 26, 5:16*am, Tony wrote:
On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 3:43:50 AM UTC-5, (unknown) wrote:
On Monday, June 25, 2012 12:39:41 PM UTC+8, Tony wrote:
Geezer...

You've got some catching up to do!

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0....html?dsId=248...

Hey, Kid!, That were a purdy good flight!, 'ceptin you furgot to mentchin' you
was a flyin' one a them there new fangled fibroglass composite gliders, 'stead a your wood and cloth one! But that's OK, at least you was out there tryin'. *Hey, I was wonderin' if you'd like a camera mount fer yer Cherokee. I gots one from the days when we was still doin' them turnpoint photos. It would look purdy historical on yer Cherokee. I gotta say I was kinda sad when they went to all that new fangled *GPS stuff, If'n they wanted to go digital, why couldn't the just 'a used them new digital cameras and still kept takin' pitchurs a them turnpoints? Then we coulda' just kept usin' our same old camera mounts and kept our old turnpoint photo books. *I also gots some old turnpoint photo books from - lemisee - El Mirage, Uvalde, Hobbs, Minden, Caddo Mills, I think I even gots one from Hutchinson case you want to practice takin some turnpoint pitchurs.

Signed,

X

The Gapa Geezer

oops! I pulled a Geezer and pasted the wrong link, here is the flight I was talking about:http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0....html?dsId=251...

I've heard of those turnpoint cameras but my cockpit is getting a bit full between my GPS, Audio Vario, Transponder, and PowerFLARM, not sure I could find room for it! Plus I couldn't figure out how to download the pictures from it!- Hide quoted text -

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OK Kid, that were a real good 'un for that old glider! I be thinkin'
I's goin' ta have one tuff time toppin' that one! But lessen you be
thinkin' I'm not out there tryin', I did make me one flight in the
GAPA round about May 26, that I think might actually be a record - the
shortest flight every
recorded hearabouts on the OLC 09.km, (1.3km handicapped). And it
actully ended in a off-field landin' 2! It seems that darned GAPA,
now that we done flied it more, has got ittself some quirky habits.
Seems that when you get goin' too fast on aereotow, it actully seems
to get
goin' with this thang called "Ailereeon Reversal" whereby it don't
want to roll the way you wants to go, leastwise, that be what my side-
kick Bart is claimin', and he be purdy smart. Seems you can get
around it by puttin in lottsa rudder, then it rolls better 'cause a
that there diheeedral effect or somethin' like that, but on tow, it
can get downright scary sometimes if'n it be turbulent and the towin'
pilut gets a goin' too fast. That's what happened
to me on this here flight. I was a rollin' left, kinda' involuntary
like in a big gust, and it didn't feal like it was in any hurry to
roll back the way I wanted, so I done got off tow purdy low, and
danged if I couldn't make back to the aerodrome. I landed in a plowed
up carrot field and had ta' take down a barbed wire fence to get the
danged thing back onta' the aerodrome propertey.

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0...l?dsId=2412108


Signed

X

The Gapa Geezer