This should make most power pilots have kittens...

Looked at the nice video, but had no kittens.
Too bad - I love kittens, but gliders don't bring them - for me.

Not a criticism - different people have different aspirations/expectations
from aviation. For my part, I can appreciate the sensual thrill of being high
and riding the wind without the nuisance of a noisy motor, but it just
doesn't do it for me unless you're going somewhere. Gliders just fly and go
nowhere.

"Pilot" means 'navigator'. If you want to navigate you need power.

GF

G Farris wrote:
Gliders just fly and go nowhere.

"Segelfliegen ist Streckenfliegen" one of my bumper stickers
said; seriously, you go places if you do it right, and are
real glad to make it back if you do it really right; meanwhile
you get to meet really interesting people when you drop in
unannounced in the middle of nowhere (though it might not always
be where you intended to go in the first place);

--Sylvain

"Pilot" means 'navigator'. If you want to navigate you need power.

GF

Natural Energy... for glider pilots.. wind and solar energy (power) is
harnessed to go somewhere. Wind is generated by the effects of solar
heating.
BT

You should try a glider flight with an experienced cross-country pilot.
Glider pilots regularly navigate their way for hundreds of kilometres across
all kinds of terrain using (solar powered!) ridge-lifted winds, wave
effects, and thermals. Many popular US and Canadian gliding sites produce
regular flights between 500 and 1000+ kilometres. Give it a try.
Ray
Invermere, BC





"G Farris" wrote in message
...

I can appreciate the sensual thrill of being high
and riding the wind without the nuisance of a noisy motor, but it just
doesn't do it for me unless you're going somewhere. Gliders just fly and
go
nowhere.

"Pilot" means 'navigator'. If you want to navigate you need power.

GF

Gliders just fly and go nowhere.

About 20 years ago, Karl Striedick flew a sailplane from Williamsport,
PA (IPT) to the vicinity of Nashville, Tennessee, and back, NONSTOP.

Since then, at least two others, including one woman, have done the
same.

"Pilot" means 'navigator'. If you want to navigate you need power.

You can't get from IPT to Nashville and back without doing some
navigating.

vince norris

Please don't feed the trolls, folks.

Jim



"G Farris" wrote in message
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"Pilot" means 'navigator'. If you want to navigate you need power.

GF

In article ,
says...


G Farris wrote:
Gliders just fly and go nowhere.

"Segelfliegen ist Streckenfliegen" one of my bumper stickers
said; seriously, you go places if you do it right, and are
real glad to make it back if you do it really right; meanwhile
you get to meet really interesting people when you drop in
unannounced in the middle of nowhere (though it might not always
be where you intended to go in the first place);

Well, just beware of those open, inviting fields up New Hampshire way.
I hear there are some pretty ornery folks up there! If you land in
Skylune's lot you'd better navigate your way out of there before he gets
his gun! ;-)

In article ,
says...


Gliders just fly and go nowhere.

About 20 years ago, Karl Striedick flew a sailplane from Williamsport,
PA (IPT) to the vicinity of Nashville, Tennessee, and back, NONSTOP.


But that was so exceptional you still remember it 20 years on!;-)
Don't get me wrong - I appreciate the beauty of that, and they would be
justified in feeling a great sense of accomplishment - I'm just saying
that for me, if I always had to land in the same place I took off I would
have given up aviation fairly early on.

GF

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:47:13 +0100, G Farris wrote in
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For my part, I can appreciate the sensual thrill of being high
and riding the wind without the nuisance of a noisy motor, but it just
doesn't do it for me unless you're going somewhere. Gliders just fly and go
nowhere.

Soaring is more of a sport than a means of transportation. However,
you might find a motorglider the best of both worlds:

http://www.stemmewest.com/

The Stemme S10-VT is the World's Best Motorglider

No other powered sailplane design has combined the high
performance of a sailplane with the practicality and convenience
of a power plane. As a result, soaring was finally freed from
local airfields and the requirement for ground handling support,
creating a new class of gliders. Starting from convenient local
airfields in the morning, owners fly under power to optimal
soaring conditions anywhere within several hundred miles, soar all
day, and still have time to return home the same day. The STEMME
propulsion design makes high performance cross country soaring a
convenient form of recreational, competition, record-setting
flights, and just plane fun.


Stemme manufacturer's web site:
http://www.stemme.de/daten/e/index.html

The flights depicted in this video will provide evidence that a Stemme
motorglider is certainly capable of going somewhe
http://www.stemme.de/daten/e/produkte/s10/video.htm

G Farris wrote:
Gliders just fly and go nowhere.

You haven't done much research on gliders/soaring, have you? And it
doesn't have to be a motor glider to go somewhere! You need a way to
launch, Mother Nature needs to be cooperating in at least some small
way, and the pilot needs to know how to use what resources are available
up there. It might be more accurate to say that it's more *about flying*
than about going somewhere, though.