First Flight

Last Saturday took my first flight in a 2-33 glider stayed up for about 40
minutes. What a beautiful experience.
John
Pittsburgh PA

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Last Saturday took my first flight in a 2-33 glider stayed up for about 40
minutes. What a beautiful experience.
John
Pittsburgh PA

Welcome aboard.

The best is yet to come.

Hard to quit smiling?;^)

Frank Whiteley
Colorado

I took my first flight a couple of weeks ago. After a week away I've been
back twice for 7 more flights. Fun day yesterday - thermalling and planning
the whole flight, approach and all. Tows will take a little time but I love
this. We also use the 2-33 for training.
This is at York Soaring, north of Toronto so I'm trying to get to solo
before the season totally shuts down.
Good Luck.
Stu.
"JR" wrote in message
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Last Saturday took my first flight in a 2-33 glider stayed up for about 40
minutes. What a beautiful experience.
John
Pittsburgh PA

JR wrote:
Last Saturday took my first flight in a 2-33 glider stayed up for about 40
minutes. What a beautiful experience.
John
Pittsburgh PA



Good for you. I'm going up this Friday for the fourth time. I've never
had anything take hold of me quite like this

Do you plan on keeping at it? Since you're posting here I would say
you're at least thinking about it.

john
orlando fl

John-
Yes, I plan on sticking with it for a long time. I am a Private Pilot and
love the fact that there is no engine to worry about quiting.

You'll also be able to blow the wings off any Cessnas for speed.


--
Andrew Nielsen ;o)


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| John-
| Yes, I plan on sticking with it for a long time. I am a Private Pilot and
| love the fact that there is no engine to worry about quiting.
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On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 20:55:45 -0600, "F.L. Whiteley"

Hard to quit smiling?;^)


After my first glider flight, I climbed out and walked a couple
minutes over to the gate in the fence where my girlfriend was waiting.
Her first words were "I didn't think it was possible to see a smile on
a white person from that far away". Why I didn't immediately start
taking lessons I don't remember, but I suspect it was because of the
cost.

17 years later am I'm now taking lessons. 15 flights, 9.5 hours.
With each passing lesson there's less swearing at the stuff I know I'm
doing wrong and more grinning. The biggest source-o-joy is being able
to tow without the instructor having to touch the controls. Three in
a row and counting.

Oh, by the way, is it true that the English transaltion of 'Tehachapi'
is 'Valley-where-wind-never-stops'? ;-)