At 07:04 PM 29/06/2006, you wrote:
Is that on foot or in the air, just wondering how money teaches
someone how to get home?
The short answer is a motor in the glider.
Arent the retrieves the fun part of gliding, I mean there are more
stories out there about retrieves that were shall we say interesting
than completed flights. Laugh at people going on retrieves without
trailers, having a glider already in the box when you arrive, going
the wrong way, or Ian Grants classic of driving over 700 kms to
retrieve a glider 35km away. Some of Kieth Nolans antics could fill
a book. He used to carry an empty petrol tin with him so people
would think he had run out of petrol. Never forget the time he was
picked up out of Ararat with a couple of lads who had been sampling
some of their crop of funny tabaccy in an unregistered ute and being
deposited on the outskirts of town because of that. They didn't want
to go into town, just around it.
Up north, dont you just take a length of auto tow rope and tow it
back that way?
HA, HA, HA ,HA, and NO,NO,NO, NO. This sort of nonsense might be
funny later - MUCH later like a few years and usually after a few beers.
It isn't about flying gliders though, it is about ineptitude and
stupidity and inadequate technology. And we wonder why more people
aren't gliding.
Mike
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