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October 11th 15, 04:16 PM
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Auto-Towing - why is this not more popular?
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October 11th 15, 04:39 PM
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Auto-Towing - why is this not more popular?
On Sunday, October 11, 2015 at 10:16:34 AM UTC-5, Muttley wrote:
Sorry here is the link https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=...&v=NnhoE7G68YM Wonderful! Is this the beach at Inch? Years and Years ago, when a mere student pilot on vacation, we stumbled on a similar operation there. Similar weather - the wind was really howling - similar K13 - but I just watched for a while.
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October 11th 15, 10:14 PM
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Auto-Towing - why is this not more popular?
On Sunday, October 11, 2015 at 8:39:50 AM UTC-7, Sarah wrote:
On Sunday, October 11, 2015 at 10:16:34 AM UTC-5, Muttley wrote: Sorry here is the link https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=...&v=NnhoE7G68YM Wonderful! Is this the beach at Inch? Years and Years ago, when a mere student pilot on vacation, we stumbled on a similar operation there. Similar weather - the wind was really howling - similar K13 - but I just watched for a while. Instead of bug wipers they need window wipers!
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October 12th 15, 01:18 PM
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Auto-Towing - why is this not more popular?
On Sunday, October 11, 2015 at 4:39:50 PM UTC+1, Sarah wrote:
On Sunday, October 11, 2015 at 10:16:34 AM UTC-5, Muttley wrote: Sorry here is the link https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=...&v=NnhoE7G68YM Wonderful! Is this the beach at Inch? Years and Years ago, when a mere student pilot on vacation, we stumbled on a similar operation there. Similar weather - the wind was really howling - similar K13 - but I just watched for a while. Yes this Launch is from Inch Beach but I think in a KA8. Bruno
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October 11th 15, 05:37 PM
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Auto-Towing - why is this not more popular?
On 10/11/2015 9:16 AM, Muttley wrote:
Sorry here is the link https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=...&v=NnhoE7G68YM So cool! Except for the water (on the ground, I mean, ha ha) that took me back to my early training days in Cumberland, MD when - for lack of a better idea - I'd go to the field on similar days, often there to find my instructor (who lived 3 hours away), insisting I take a tow in similar low-cloudbase, drizzling, superficially gloomy conditions. Many times we'd find intermittently usable convective lift, and it wasn't long after I got my license I figured out I'd been also learning a whole heckuva lot more about the atmosphere and in-flight judgment, too. (Thanks, Tom!) Man, it is FUN to soar on "unsoarable" days. It's even more fun to be having & able to do so when XC! Bob W.
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