HOW MANY GLIDER PILOTS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A LIGHT BULB

Alas, that ballast is a light one, so there will less wing loading than
with a non-fluorescent light bulb.

However, I do find the fluorscent ones perfect for a 0-.5 kt max climb
rate day as they suck the optium amount of dark out of such light
soaring conditions.

See the article by Dick Johnson in Soaring, the chapter in Derek
Piggott's Understading Gliding, and the powerpoint link at Tom Knauff's
web page.

HOW MANY GLIDER PILOTS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A LIGHT BULB?

As many as possible. I believe the saying is "Many hands make LIGHT work!"

At 06:18 21 September 2005, Roger Worden wrote:
HOW MANY GLIDER PILOTS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A LIGHT
BULB?


Folk, Gentlemen and Club Managers - lend me your lugs.

There's money to be made here.

Employ five agressive feminists - who will take five
(aggresssive) hours to do the job - and CBS (or the
British Channel 4) will PAY through the nose to make
a 10 hour documentary out of it !

sta13.

FS 110V, 60 Watt Bulb, NDH.

Joe=20

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Joe,

We took your advice and procured these lights and fitted them throughout
the club at a nominal effort of five members per light bulb:

CFI to direct operations and advise on technique

Safety officer to point out the hazards and prescribe which techniques
are allowed

Club Secretary to negotiate with light bulb suppliers and get the best
deal

Club Web Marketing guru to document the effort and publish on the club
web site

Tugmaster to perform the essential "tug" of the light bulb to ensure
that it is secure in its fitting

HOWEVER, we have one complaint: Our first attempt to use these bulbs
resulted in blown fuses and the complete destruction of all the light
bulbs and we now find ourselves having to go on a recruiting drive for
female members so that we can fill the requirement for a sixth light
changing team member - a woman to tell all us men what we are doing
wrong.

Yours,

Frustrated, UK.

recruiting drive for female members so that we can fill the
requirement for a sixth light
changing team member - a woman to tell all us men what we are doing wrong.
Yours,
Frustrated, UK.

Frustrated men looking for women?
Ooookaaayyy, there's too much light on THAT subject...

At 05:24 21 September 2005, wrote:
There is a good chance the thread will survive all
of the coming dark
winter nights without switching context.

You're new here aren't you? Before you know it this
thread will be about 'whether you get more height back
in a pullup from Vne with or without water ballast'
or 'the spinning characterstics of the K21' or '500
foot finish cylinders' or 'SSA politics' or whatever.

Andrew you must be really new here ........ you forgot to mention the
'relative merits/demerits of flying a PW5' thread switch

This is not the sort of thread that sould be on this
site try urasb!!
Grow up.





At 10:06 21 September 2005, Andrew Warbrick wrote:
At 05:24 21 September 2005, wrote:
There is a good chance the thread will survive all
of the coming dark
winter nights without switching context.

You're new here aren't you? Before you know it this
thread will be about 'whether you get more height back
in a pullup from Vne with or without water ballast'
or 'the spinning characterstics of the K21' or '500
foot finish cylinders' or 'SSA politics' or whatever.

Troubled by the impending dark
Northern Hemisphere winter nights?

Want to know those nice people in
Scotland, UK, are getting more
performance from the same lightbulbs?

Then see the October-November S&G,
out next week :-)

Helen

Editor, Sailplane & Gliding
www.gliding.co.uk

Troubled by impending dark winter nights
in the Northern Hemisphere?

Want to know how pilots in Scotland
are extracting more performance
from their existing lightbulbs?

Then see the October-November S&G,
published next week

:-)

Helen
Editor, Sailplane & Gliding
www.gliding.co.uk