http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1
Hello US Hawks!!
Bill Cummings - 2011/12/16 20:16:57 UTC
Well then now---it seems as though most everyone will slow down to looky-look at a train wreck in progress. And of course stay well clear of the tracks themselves/ourselves during the event.
Lotsa trains don't wanna get too close to train wrecks 'cause they're afraid that the guy who pulled the rails out from under the first one will start looking for other targets.
But let's move along now folks.
Alright. But I'm not seeing - or predicting - much happening.
My physics teacher, Mr. Anderson, had a unique style of teaching.
Ridicule, shame, embarrassment, mortification, indignity, degradation were just a few of the educational tools that he would employ daily. Other days when he was angry he would turn down right nasty.
I don't do that to the people IN THE CLASS - just to the assholes who feel like strolling in whenever they feel like it for the sole purpose of sabotaging it.
He taught at a college level but we were in our senior year of high school.
1. You are less likely to die if two seconds before launch you assume that you're not hooked in than you are if for the past five minutes you've been assuming that you are.
2. It's a lot easier and safer to roll a glider in on the wheels than it is to try to whipstall it to a dead stop three feet off the ground.
3. When a swerving car is about to plow into you at an intersection it's almost always better to have both hands on the handlebars and brake levers.
4. Your kite's a lot more likely to finish the day in good shape if you use a string that doesn't break every third time you're trying to get it off the ground.
5. It's easier to crack the nut if you put it near the hinge and squeeze at the ends than it is if you move the nut and your hands close to the middle.
6. If you're using a hang strap that blows at twelve thousand pounds on a glider that blows at two thousand pounds you don't need an extra strap.
None of that is rocket science.
To his credit, if judging by my presents, he had a class of slow learners.
What were the learners like in your English class? (Sorry.)
The level of joy entering his class room was equal to a one way trip to the gas chamber.
Sometimes if you don't understand the grade school level basics of flying a hang glider a Saturday afternoon can instantly turn into the equivalent of an actual one way trip to the gas chamber. And lots of us have known people for whom that's been the case.
Speaking of things equal, to this day, I can recite that a mole is equal to 6.0221415 times 10 to the 23rd and also tell you what that means and still have absolutely no clue as to what I'm talking about.
Is there an equivalent you need to worry about in hang gliding? The most complicated thing I hafta do is calculate the load the weak link on the end of a two point bridle feels.
In retirement now I don't recall any time during my working life that I had any need for that equation.
And I've got tables so that you don't even hafta do that calculation. You can just look it up.
Back then I confessed to my classmates that I had no clue as to what Mr. Anderson was talking about. To my surprise they admitted that they were in the same boat with me.
1. Did you confess to Mr. Anderson that you had no clue what he was talking about?
2. Were Zack, Larry, Antoine, and Steve in your class?
The greatest lesson I left Mr. Anderson's class with was, when thirty people are listening with an open mind and nothing is sinking in it's not your fault.
It is the instructor's fault.
What if for the previous decade or so the thirty people have been getting brainwashed with total rot and Mr. Anderson is trying to teach that two plus two actually DOES equal four? Whose fault is it that the answers all read, "Well, in the opinions of most of the flight park operators..."?
Some people may know a lot but lack the talent to teach or use the wrong style of getting their point across.
OK. So you go find someone more to your liking or just work your own way through the textbook. But the point's gonna be the same and getting the point may well save you that one way trip to the gas chamber.
That doesn't mean that their knowledge is flawed but the principal should have fired Mr. Anderson.
1. What if the principal...
http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=802
AL's Second flight at Packsaddle how it went
Bob Kuczewski - 2011/10/23 16:29:29 UTC
As for Nobody's request for me to read a document, I haven't found the time yet. I'm sorry, but I don't have time to read everything that everyone asks me to read.
...not only has no understanding of or background or interest in the course material but...
Zack C - 2011/12/17 14:56:03 UTC
1. You continually misrepresent Tad's statements.
...is himself one of the main disruptive elements of the class and is out to undercut the teacher at every opportunity for his own political reasons?
2. US Hawks isn't a school and nobody appointed or paid me as or gave me the authority of a classroom teacher. It was supposed to be a hang gliding organization that really honored the free speech of its members. But I don't know what the hell it's supposed to be now.
P.S. Who's the NEW US Hawks physics teacher and how much is he getting paid?
