Adam So when are you going to tell us all??? REX Captain at age 24 - this never happened in the good old days. I can still remember my first flight and Mr (Charles) Arthur Butler walked down the plane and signed out tickets of all the kids on board and all his pilots flew in WW2. Macca
2008/10/22 Adam Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Amen to that, I know one guy who became an instructor for two months. > Once he saw all his mates going off having XC fun, while he was stuck in the > back seat of a two seater. Obviously this guy gave the instructing up! He > did however continue to contribute to the sport by doing Form2's for the > club, lead and follows (now called coaching), treasurer, etc.. > > I guess it all comes down to cutting the big rubber band from the airfield > before the XC bug really hits! Having said that, I know someone who is the > most competitive and driven person in the sky, hates to loose. However, > when there on the waves surfing, they like nothing more than 'hanging 10' on > the front of there longboard while others carve it up infront of them! ie, > without a competitive bone in their body while surfing. > > So I guess it all comes down to 'each to their own'. In my mind I think, > why would anyone want to float around the home airfield or fly a wooden > aircraft!! haha, sorry. But for someone else, they'd look at my flying > (high performance machines and racing) and think, why would anyone like to > spoil the extasy of just going gliding/soaring.. > > As Gleb (from The Sunship Game movie) said in the 1970 US Nationals, "From > childhood it was always a beautiful thing, I used to make model airplanes. > I'd much prefer handlaunch gliders always, I find beauty in everything. I > find competition not beautiful, your storming that thing through air where > it's all shaking, I find it grueling, difficult, wasteful of beauty." > > > Regards > WPP > > > Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:39:10 -0700 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > CC: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Where to from here? > > > > I was talking about the implication that your 80% were too smart to do > instructing - I wasn't implying they don't contribute in other ways, just > that (you say) they consciously decide to leave instructing to others so > they can fly more themselves. > > > > "I believe they have kept their eye on the big picture, know what it is > > really want and not become a prisoner of the Instructors Roster" > > > > Generally the way to become a prisoner of any roster is to not have > enough others on the roster? > > > > I think we're all entitled to retire eventually, or even just take a > sabbatical. But somebody has to do it. > > > > R. > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring >
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