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Jim, You made me remember, and laugh. Thanks. Big to small. Yeah. Nothing like transitioning from E-3 to hang glider to put your world in perspective. Took me a long time to believe what little collection of wires, tubing, and cloth could actually do. ;-@ I find myself convinced that, in aviation, t...

I strongly urge anyone seriously thinking of flying the Dragonfly as an occasional club tug-pilot to contact Jim and Adam and have a long conversation with them on the subject. The Dragonfly may have two wing, a tail, and 3-axis controls. But, it is still a unique beast. Close enough to being a GA a...

P.S. Not sure what happened to John. Last I saw him in the air he was leaving base heading for a particularly nice line of cumies to the west. The clouds looked like they were still producing at 7:00. He might have flown all the way back home to VA.

Joe G.

Multiple events conspired starting the night before (with a 120 gallons of water spewing into the basement as a result of my RO filter). Good sign that I would have missed another good day, so I persevered. As the kids would say, I"t was 'sTooPid'". Looked pretty nice when I finally made i...

Looks kinda breezy, perhaps doable.

I need to sell my vario, because I'm tired of trying to download my flight on a Mac... You are right Danny, it was blue last weekend, and there was plenty of sink to be had - despite what the "I couldn't figure out how to get down" crowd had to say. Those are probably the same guys that ea...

Look forward to seeing you there.

-- Joe

I want to live in the past.

Math-wise, our calculation would be correct if both landing on your knees and wearing shorts are independent outcomes. Your problem is more likely to be a result of 'reporting error.' You tend to remember the stuff that gets your attention. That said, I think that "long pants are just a crutch ...

Conditions were massively stable at Ridgely today. And virtually no wind. Took advantage of the situation to get back into the Talon for the first time in a year. Felt great.

-- Joe

I recommend the afterword to Orson Scott Card's novel entitled EMPIRE. It is thought-provoking, and it expresses my dismay over the dogmatism and outright hatred I hear from BOTH sides of the aisle much better that I have been able to do. I think the Olive branch idea is a good thing. Problem is, yo...

"I saw WSW all day when I checked in the morning, although I have to admit that I didn’t spend a great deal of time gauging every little deviation from what I believed to be good enough. Anyway, I suggest we stick to the facts rather than jump to conclusions based on forecasts that were deemed ...

Gary - You'll find that Dennis Pagen never mentions the Bernoulli effect. He dislikes it as much as I do for trying to visualize the forces involved with flight. In the discussion above note that all we need to know is that force increases with the AOA (up until stall), and the direction of the tot...

I can certify, after making multiple trips, that you won't set off any medal detectors. Whatever they use to screw us back together nowadays is evidently non-ferrous. -- Joe Here's Rich's blog. He's posted his accident report and his post-operation x-ray. He's doing much better now and drove himself...

Brian, I was referring to the 3000 MSL FD for reporting stations in that area, found on NOAAs ADDS page. Bill Bennett's advice is sound, with the provisio that a trainer like a Falcon should probably not be flown high in anything greater than borderline soarable conditions (I now think). There is a ...

The doctor at Woodstock did an outstanding job on me. She is actually known by the best hand surgeon in the city, who is scheduled to try and save my wrist soon. The problem sits squarely with my HMO, which did zero follow up on my wrist after the accident. -- Joe Was the wrist operated on at the ho...

I would pick a number far below 35 mph. I would not have ventured out to fly any type of hang glider on a forecast that strong, certainly not a Falcon. The ADDS TAFs called for winds aloft to back down to 15 knots that day. The gust factor was maybe 5 mph on the ground. It was not a braindead blowno...

10916 and 11864. I like things with multiple aircraft in 'em.

As Brian has said, the USHGA Accident Review Committee (meaning him and I) do read the mail on this listserve. I myself have only been doing this for a couple weeks now, after susbscribing as a result of the airspace controversy. I do not, however, monitor this listserve for purposes of collecting d...

As Brian has said, the USHGA Accident Review Committee (meaning him and I) do read the mail on this listserve. I myself have only been doing this for a couple weeks now, after susbscribing as a result of the airspace controversy. I do not, however, monitor this listserve for purposes of collecting d...

I watched him arrive and carry up his bike onto the cube, walk to the edge, hold it up over his head like he was gonna toss it over, and yell. Pretty crazy looking, but not quite as crazy as rumor is already painting it. I think we should all thank the guy with the feather for saving Ralph's life. O...

My first glider I called 'The Pulse'.

My second glider, I referred to as 'The Fusion'.

I'm currently calling my present glider 'The Talon'.

Not sure what name my next machine with have; might be 'the wheelchair' the way things are going.

An outstanding day at the Rock on Sunday. NW 10-15, just like you want it. Plenty of thermal lift to near 4k, and apparently reliable ridge lift to 600-700 over as well. Looked like you coulda gone upwind to the Pulpit if youda had the right harness/wing combination. I had Janet's Falcon 195 (trimme...

Brian now has the only copy of the waiver, and I do not recall if it was numbered or not. Past waivers never carried a number, even after I requested one to address this very issue. I think that Hugh's solution is very elegant. Does the waiver have a number? The SSOC seems to want a number, as I rec...

We have a waiver to fly with the TFR around P-40 (High Rock) on Aug 20, 21, 27, and 28, in conjunction with the HR Fly-in. Those of you who have volunteered to act as launch site managers will need to keep a copy of this waiver on-hand. A single copy can be passed on from one group to the next at sh...