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In article , Pete Reinhart
writes All, Michael makes two very salient points: 1. The hassel to fun ratio is very high in soaring. Not if you have a share in a motor glider. Including self-sustainers of course, including Schempp's Turbos. Anyway, when there was hassle on gliding fields in my youth, that did not put me off. mending cable breaks was all too common, soaring was not. It is the other way round nowadays, fortunately. But I am a lifelong fanatic, which others obviously are not. Soaring is always challenging but some times it may not be fun when you are about to land in some nasty field a long way fro base. Hence my long-term addiction to having an "outboard engine" like the small sailing boats I used to crew for ..... -- Ian Strachan Lasham Gliding Centre, UK |
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