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Been in Oklahoma for a couple of weeks and been having a ball flying. But look Ma, no motor!
The wife under tow. My son the instructor in the rear.
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And afterwards. A thrill anyone could enjoy!
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We love Gliders, but they take a lot of work and team work to accomplish the end result. But it's worth every bit of it!
 
You know how to live!

My only glider flight was in a Cessna 152 - when the engine quit at 3500'.

:eeek:

Tom
 
We used to watch gliders go up from the local bush airport when we were on vacation in Vermont when I was a kid. We'd take our picnic to the aiport and watch them go up and glide around.

Finally got a ride in one a few years later. Turned a pale shade of green, but it was a fantastic experience.

Looks like y'all had a good time!
 
My first sky dive experience was out of a Cessna 152....from about 5000'
 
I want a ~throttle~ to go along with stick and rudder before I'll climb aboard... I know it's somewhat an illusion of security but that's me. Oh, and something with a respectable glide angle... :jester:
 
DrEntropy said:
I want a ~throttle~ to go along with stick and rudder before I'll climb aboard... I know it's somewhat an illusion of security but that's me. Oh, and something with a respectable glide angle... :jester:
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It is a thrill to release from the towplane around 2000 feet and gain another 3000 or more feet. As far as glide ratio most sailplanes are 26 to 1 or better The Blanik that is in the picture is 28-30 to 1.

Don
 
donbmw said:
DrEntropy said:
I want a ~throttle~ to go along with stick and rudder before I'll climb aboard... I know it's somewhat an illusion of security but that's me. Oh, and something with a respectable glide angle... :jester:
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It is a thrill to release from the towplane around 2000 feet and gain another 3000 or more feet. As far as glide ratio most sailplanes are 26 to 1 or better The Blanik that is in the picture is 28-30 to 1.

Don
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But Doc, they make them with retractable engines now just for folks who like that extra bit of security. But that's cheating!
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Don, It was a hunt and choose day. There was lift around, but in an almost cloudless sky. Ah, but that's part of the fun! Beam me up Scotty!
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I loved my only glider flight. It was in Germany, and the view over the Rhine was fantastic.




BTW, we were sent up via inertial reels instead of tow planes.
 
Been in a glider once and it was an absolute blast and have an open invite to go glider flying if I can ever get up to reno. Had a stinson I was flying turn into a glider for a few minutes. Not fun and it had to happen in the cajon pass at a point where a landing was just going to hurt no matter what.
 
I've had my Blanik experience, Don. One of my pals around here HAD one. :shocked:

And as a youth experienced hammerhead stalls in a Cessna 150 and a LOT of other aerial foolishness. Including OV-10, O-2 and F-4 rides... Doc don't do aereo-planes nomo. :nonono:
 
DeltaAir423 said:
I loved my only glider flight. It was in Germany, and the view over the Rhine was fantastic.




BTW, we were sent up via inertial reels instead of tow planes.
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Winches are good for about 1,000 ft of lift,depending on the rope length, which is plenty in a mountainous area where you can pick up a thermal or wave at low altitude. Here in the Tulsa area we need to be towed to 2,000 feet to pick up a thermal.(Hopefully)!
 
What a great intro flight I had back in '73. Had my first teaching job, in the public schools of the lower Rio Grande Valley.

Girded my loins and headed out to local field (McAllen TX). Talked to the cfi, told him of my "dream". Learned it would cost me around $500 to become a private pilot.

We pre-flighted the C152, then accelerated down the runway. I pulled back on the yoke and became a "small plane flyer".

So the cfi takes us up to around 3500', and says "watch this".

<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">that was a clue of what was to come ...</span></span>

Starts doing aerobatics as I clutched the seat. Then he cut the engine to show "it flies like a glider".

The prop stopped right in front of the windscreen; cfi somehow noticed I was totally terrified. Amazingly perceptive he was.

Then he couldn't get the engine started up. Told me to brace for a hard landing. We came down in a carrot field. I *think* I walked to a taxi and went back to the airport for my car.

Took me over 30 years to take my second lesson. And now it's $10,000 for a ppl here in southern New England. Can't afford to finish.

:madder:

Tom
 
Looks like you had fun in the gliders!

I have not been in one, but everyone says the neat thing is the silence. In my old crock, with the door off and prop hammering away, I wear a headset even though it has no radio.

We have a glider airport near me (in Blaristown, NJ), so sometimes we see them in the air. The tow plane they mostly use is a real Cessna Birdog.
One time a glider pilot (or student?) got too low and had to put it down at our airport (Andover) which has the shortest runway in NJ and definitely not for glider pulls. I'm standing next to my plane watching this thing come in and I can't figure out what's going on at first. They had to pull the wings and take it out on a trailer.
 
NutmegCT said:
What a great intro flight I had back in '73. Had my first teaching job, in the public schools of the lower Rio Grande Valley.

Girded my loins and headed out to local field (McAllen TX). Talked to the cfi, told him of my "dream". Learned it would cost me around $500 to become a private pilot.

We pre-flighted the C152, then accelerated down the runway. I pulled back on the yoke and became a "small plane flyer".

So the cfi takes us up to around 3500', and says "watch this".

<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">that was a clue of what was to come ...</span></span>

Starts doing aerobatics as I clutched the seat. Then he cut the engine to show "it flies like a glider".

The prop stopped right in front of the windscreen; cfi somehow noticed I was totally terrified. Amazingly perceptive he was.

Then he couldn't get the engine started up. Told me to brace for a hard landing. We came down in a carrot field. I *think* I walked to a taxi and went back to the airport for my car.

Took me over 30 years to take my second lesson. And now it's $10,000 for a ppl here in southern New England. Can't afford to finish.

:madder:

Tom
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All I can say Tom is, the so called CFI should have been reprimanded by the proper authority! What he did was an absolute No No! I am a CFI and one of the many rules I've d lived by over the years is you never do anything to make a new student feel uneasy. Later on, a little sweating is ok, as long as it's part of the curriculum, but never in the beginning. Evidently his showing off his, "SKILLS", proved just how poor an instructor he was.
 
Where at in Oklahoma is that?
 
Walter, it's at the Mid-America Industrial Airport, 591 airport rd. Pryor, OK. We have property outside of Peggs in Mayes county, about 18 miles north of Tahlequah.
 
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