Kite Strings

Tad Eareckson wrote:....

...Jonathan.

Oh. That's Jonathan....

On that forum it is very easy to change user ID and I do according to whim and caprice. At least that's what Whim and Caprice keep telling me.

Shoulda been a schmuck. They'd have thought it was cool. One of hundreds of entertaining things I could pull off but won't attempt in order to preserve our Happy Acres privileges. Audio... Gotta be the glider noise reflecting off the ground. Nah. I reduced the rest of the sound by 18db then faded i...

That looked like a lot of fun to me, NME. It's the no headwind foot landings that scare me. Also, interesting listening to the audio as you get into ground effect. Thanks Steve, I'll be glad when I get to the rest of this flight edit. There's some interesting scenery as well as decision making with...

Some useful information. Note that this graded lot would have been excellent for a full-prone wheel landing too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTUrK1RadPE

Here's the info source my wife had found for me back when:
http://www.rnib.org.uk/eye-health/eye-conditions/posterior-vitreous-detachment-PVD
The RNIB seems like a great information source. Gotta love the UK!

PVDs heal on their own. I've had them twice. The first time I was soaring at Sylmar and suddenly there was an explosion of lightning bolts arcing across my left eye. It was so bad that it gave me vertigo. My initial thought was, "Oh shit! I have a detached retina.". My next thought was, &q...

....to ever have a glider more than ninety percent of glide range from a putting green with a minimum of two hundred feet of useable runway. (Jonathan gets a pass because he encourages other flyers NOT TO do what he does.) The safe X/C rule is more like 1/2 of best L/D to a wheel land-able field. L...

Believe it or not when I publish situations like that dry riverbed landing and other challenging flights I later have pilots thanking me for showing them what they're not missing... Now I'm confused. PS Big thanks for posting that Elements of Style link, NME. In years past I had many pilots bugging...

I hate it when spellchecks fail to divine one's intent and correct accordingly. But yeah... Excellent examples of what all Ones, Twos, and Threes and just about all Fours and Fives should NOT be aspiring to and/or preparing for. I guess we need either a divine spell check or a copy of this classic ...

Steve Davy wrote:

NMERider wrote:Maybe Nicki ain't got no 'soul' because the foot-landing Borg done assimilated her spirit!

It's Niki, without the 'c', NME.

You mean nobody's told her? They typo'd her birth certificate.