Jay Honeck wrote:
A friend of ours has been after us to fly up to Ames, IA (home of "the
other" Iowa university, Iowa State) to go flying with the "Silent Knights"
soaring club for months.


I had the opportunity to go soaring some years ago up around Boone, NC in the
Great Smokey Mountains. I figured I'd be on top of things but frankly, I got a
little green around the gills after a time. It was hot and I wasn't the one
doing the flying... a bad combination to be sure. Fortunately I didn't disgrace
myself but I was relieved we weren't able to do any aerobatics as earlier
planned... something to do with weight and balance. No doubt if we had I'd have
donated my lunch to the cockpit.

I'm glad I tried it; just as I'm glad I parachuted out of a C-182 with an old
T-10 chute back in the mid 70s... just to see if I would actually do it. I had
a college roommate who was a glider pilot who flew with the Bermuda High Soaring
folks out of Chester, SC. The only folks he took flying were of the female
variety... but that's another story.

Anyway, I'm glad you and your wife enjoyed your experience... and I'm sorry for
your loss. I lost my own mother last Christmas to pancreatic cancer one week
after she was diagnosed. I fully understand the emotional maelstrom your wife
has gone through.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

VE