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Gliding
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Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:38 pmby tcco94
Well I went down to the Byron Airport on Sunday looking for a gliding club to look into signing up for and getting my gliding license since im old enough but im not old enough for a pilots license. I was there for about 5 hours. Its very suprising how everyone in the gliding club is so friendly and alot of people from outside the country with there accents. Well when we got there, before even talking to anyone about gliders we helped someone put on there wings. After that we talked about the club and what not. Then I decided to go up on a flight to see if thats what I wanna do. They didnt wanna pull out a new glider so we just waited for the one in use to be one with. That took about an hour. So we helped push some gliders out to the runway. After that we went up on our flight. Defiantly an expierence, although not as great as flying but still fun. We were towed for about 15 minutes. After that we glided around looking for some thermals. He let me take the controls while we were trying to find the thermals and then he was showing me what type of aerobatics the gliders can do. We actually ended up lossing our radio in the sky
Re: Gliding
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Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:07 pmby patchz
[color=#000000]Way to go Tyler!
Re: Gliding
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Tue Mar 16, 2010 3:26 pmby Hagar
Good one! [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
not as great as flying but still fun.
Well if gliding isn't flying I don't know what is.
Re: Gliding
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Tue Mar 16, 2010 4:01 pmby machineman9
Good one! [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
not as great as flying but still fun.
Well if gliding isn't flying I don't know what is.
"Falling with style"
Nice shots there.
Re: Gliding
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Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:16 pmby Flying Trucker
Well done Tyler...that smile is worth a thousand words...
Good luck on your flying....
Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug
Re: Gliding
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Tue Mar 16, 2010 7:26 pmby Thud
Good for you, man!
Re: Gliding
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Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:08 pmby olderndirt
Other than having the ability to climb without the aid of a thermal and not having to be towed airborne, having a motor on the airframe is often a bit of a liability to 'flying'.
Re: Gliding
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Wed Mar 17, 2010 6:51 pmby beaky
Smart move... I hope you stick with it; it's a great way to build your flying-skill foundation.
Must have been cool to fly a G-103... I haven't flown anything that "slippery" yet; looks nice. 8-)
And I see you got a taste of no-radio pattern work... a very useful experience, and really not as scary as some might think.