Re: landing
Posted: 2018/09/24 11:13:44 UTC
Gawd. Sure is nice to have somebody other that Brian, Steve, Yours Truly, Joe post something in many moons. And you didn't even log in to the ACP and unban Bob.
Brad Koji in that one. (Didn't do him any good on his last flight and the chin guard may well have been the safety feature which got his neck snapped.)
Conventional "wisdom" was that with our ears entombed we wouldn't be able to safely gauge our airspeed so they cut them all with pairs of one inch diameter circular ear openings. Made it REALLY easy to gauge one's airspeed. It wasn't long before I defeated that advancement with a pair of rubber patches.
Love the way you got the PG guys to line up and kite at the far end of the deck and establish an overshoot net for the last (uphill/downwind) landing. (Pity the camera had gotten tilted.)
Good. 'Bout time. Along the lines of Will's Wing's Easy Flyer desperation move - 'cept absolutely no hint of downside, let alone a fairly lethal control compromise. I wonder how many more decades it would've taken for mainstream western hang gliding to have made available an AT release that wasn't an easily reachable total piece o' shit if it hadn't set itself so firmly on its current irreversible path to extinction a dozen or so years ago....High Energy...
Yeah. A lot more of those get pulled off just fine than the instructors and landing clinic assholes want people to know about....could have pulled these off safely by...
Yeah. All my early flying was at Jockey's Ridge and I racked up a lot of hours there. And it was the most demanding flying I ever did. And wheels tended to be more of a bother than a benefit - 'specially since if it's soarable you're pretty much guaranteed a healthy smooth headwind in which to land. Skids... The glider stays put better, sand can't bother them, allow you to skim the slope with less worry....should allow slide landings on sand....
Back when full face helmets first became fashionable everyone - Yours Truly included - got these Uvex jobs.The holes don't make a sound....
Brad Koji in that one. (Didn't do him any good on his last flight and the chin guard may well have been the safety feature which got his neck snapped.)
Conventional "wisdom" was that with our ears entombed we wouldn't be able to safely gauge our airspeed so they cut them all with pairs of one inch diameter circular ear openings. Made it REALLY easy to gauge one's airspeed. It wasn't long before I defeated that advancement with a pair of rubber patches.
Love the way you got the PG guys to line up and kite at the far end of the deck and establish an overshoot net for the last (uphill/downwind) landing. (Pity the camera had gotten tilted.)