- Wed Mar 14, 2018 6:29 pm
#402695
The other day, during my 16th hour in a hang glider, I was parked over
the landing chute. From my high vantage point I observed yet another
wafty wiggly slow landing. Soon after in the chute, the slow leading
edge of a topless clipped a tree and pounded in, after which an
air-ambulance arrived. The take-offs I've seen by experienced pilots
have similarly been slow and haphazard. I've now been sick for days.
It's almost like I'm 10 years old. It's been explained that fresh air
is good and cigarette smoke is bad. Pretty obvious. Then I go to high
school and just about everyone is chain smoking and having asthma
attacks. Did I miss something?
My observations of the tandems contrast markedly. They launch like they
mean it and land at speed. As a passenger I really noticed just how
serious the pilots became before launch and before landing. Their
technique is what I aim to emulate.
I'm really scratching my head here. What's going on? What have other
pilots seen? Is it the case that advanced pilots are terrible at
take-off and landing? Moreover, with a couple of hundred more hours of
experience will I too become as needlessly risky?
the landing chute. From my high vantage point I observed yet another
wafty wiggly slow landing. Soon after in the chute, the slow leading
edge of a topless clipped a tree and pounded in, after which an
air-ambulance arrived. The take-offs I've seen by experienced pilots
have similarly been slow and haphazard. I've now been sick for days.
It's almost like I'm 10 years old. It's been explained that fresh air
is good and cigarette smoke is bad. Pretty obvious. Then I go to high
school and just about everyone is chain smoking and having asthma
attacks. Did I miss something?
My observations of the tandems contrast markedly. They launch like they
mean it and land at speed. As a passenger I really noticed just how
serious the pilots became before launch and before landing. Their
technique is what I aim to emulate.
I'm really scratching my head here. What's going on? What have other
pilots seen? Is it the case that advanced pilots are terrible at
take-off and landing? Moreover, with a couple of hundred more hours of
experience will I too become as needlessly risky?
Fun 190