Kite Strings

How 'bout letting me determine when - or if - Bob gets his wire reconnected here? OK. As of 2017/08/08 03:21:51 UTC bobk is banned - again - permanently. http://ushawks.org/forum/images/smilies/icon_clap.gif http://ushawks.org/forum/images/smilies/icon_clap.gif http://ushawks.org/forum/images/smili...

Yeah but you're actually landing in a place that couldn't be much more unlimited and familiar. And while Southern California guys DO tend to know what a narrow dry riverbed with large rocks strewn all over the place is they tend to have no fuckin' clue what an obstructed field is or how to deal wit...

The ability to descend steeply without accelerating is of tremendous value for landing in limited and unfamiliar places.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih6PUKYyERU

....Real jungle out there. Really gotta watch out for those nearby trees... Better to land in the shoulder-high chaparral and risk breaking a downtube than slalom around trees for a graded lot and break something else. http://meredithaz.images.worldnow.com/images/11863475_G.jpg http://meredithaz.im...

It's funny how I wound up with a whiplash-type neck injury from performing too low of a turn from base to final with my over-sized drogue chute deployed while not paying attention to my sink rate which was 3X normal. Had I been flying with wheels I'd have bounced off the LZ grass once or twice but o...

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=34985 Low Turns to Final Jason Boehm - 2017/01/02 01:46:44 UTC NMERider - 2016/12/31 06:51:01 UTC The attitude of feigned superiority and hand wringing so grotesquely displayed on this by one individual will, in the end be a contributing factor to the loss...

....but this time I find some of his writing troubling..... As well you should Mario. Cryin Ryan could be the poster child for hypocritical elitism in any sport. Not just hang gliding. His blog url might just as aptly be addressed: fakeflightadvice.bs. In this case he has absolutely no remorse for ...

.... https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3881/14525903561_0b34c8cfe3_c.jpg I think I tripped and fractured my big toe here. 2 days later I flew a 40-mile route from Crestline to Victorville with my right foot in a soft cast, launching and landing on one foot. A lot of pilots have eaten it here in the Bi...

....Ryan's the consummate u$hPa operative. And u$hPa's Primary Directive is that there's absolutely nothing wrong with anything that's being done on any substantial scale. And the one and only time in its entire history that it deviated from that model / admitted otherwise is documented in the 1983...

Tad Eareckson wrote:....If only we had more Ryan Voights out there guiding us all through our perpetual student journeys....

My guess is that we'd have even more dead and crippled student pilots than we already do.