XC Sickness

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It's sad. Nobody warned me. I used to be happy just flying around
near the airport. I didn't have a truck. I didn't have a "crew", I
always knew where I was going to land.
They don't tell you that you won't be happy just flying around near
the airport after you've flown a little XC.
Does this ease off a bit with time? I'm only half kidding about the
above. Last week I flew my best long distance flight ever, and I was
no-kidding giddy about it for DAYS. Fine, but now I seem to be
obsessed with getting a LONGER flight in. Am I just sick or does it
affect others the same way?

Thx
Jim

[Jack[_1_]]

wrote:


> ...now I seem to be obsessed with getting a LONGER flight in.
> Am I just sick or does it affect others the same way?


Yes.



Jack

[309]

On Jul 10, 7:51 pm, Jack > wrote:
> wrote:
>
> > ...now I seem to be obsessed with getting a LONGER flight in.
> > Am I just sick or does it affect others the same way?
>
> Yes.
>
> Jack

Look in the Yellow Pages for "Diamond-a-holics..." The number can be
found between "Crack-a-holics" and "Dragster-a-holics."

Your doctor will just tell you to take a couple of 1-26's and call him
in the morning.

....and it might work: distances SEEM* longer in a 1-26...you have to
earn those kilometers...

-Pete

* The corollary is taken from a marriage counselor debunking a
commonly held myth:
"Married men don't live longer than single men...it just
SEEMS longer." ;-)

P.S.: Yes, I'm happily married: to my crew!

....for now.

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On Jul 10, 9:43 pm, wrote:
> Am I just sick or does it
> affect others the same way?


sounds right to me. welcome to the club.

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> ...and it might work: distances SEEM* longer in a 1-26...you have to
> earn those kilometers...

I've kinda' got my eye on the MG33SL for sale on Wings and Wheels.
Very pretty, 33 to one. Not down there with a 1-26, but more sporting
than my Speed Astir.

Jim

[Papa3]

On Jul 10, 10:43 pm, wrote:

> Does this ease off a bit with time? I'm only half kidding about the
> above. Last week I flew my best long distance flight ever, and I was
> no-kidding giddy about it for DAYS. Fine, but now I seem to be
> obsessed with getting a LONGER flight in. Am I just sick or does it
> affect others the same way?
>
> Thx
> Jim

I got back from a 12-day trip to a nationals where we flew 10 of the
days, totalling several thousand kilomers and probably 40 hours. I
promised the wife that I wouldn't even LOOK at the sky for two
weeks. A few days later, the last big cold front of spring pushes
through, resulting in a couple of days with 1000K potential.

Me. "Honey...."

The wife has pretty much figured it out. "You'll just be miserable
moping around the house and making the rest of us miserable. Just go
and..." No need to finish that sentence.

So, another two days of flying, some 1600K and 15 hours more.

Now, I really promise, I won't even LOOK at the sky for two weeks...

P3

[chipsoars]

On Jul 11, 11:48 am, Papa3 > wrote:
> On Jul 10, 10:43 pm, wrote:
>
> > Does this ease off a bit with time? I'm only half kidding about the
> > above. Last week I flew my best long distance flight ever, and I was
> > no-kidding giddy about it for DAYS. Fine, but now I seem to be
> > obsessed with getting a LONGER flight in. Am I just sick or does it
> > affect others the same way?
>
> > Thx
> > Jim
>
> I got back from a 12-day trip to a nationals where we flew 10 of the
> days, totalling several thousand kilomers and probably 40 hours. I
> promised the wife that I wouldn't even LOOK at the sky for two
> weeks. A few days later, the last big cold front of spring pushes
> through, resulting in a couple of days with 1000K potential.
>
> Me. "Honey...."
>
> The wife has pretty much figured it out. "You'll just be miserable
> moping around the house and making the rest of us miserable. Just go
> and..." No need to finish that sentence.
>
> So, another two days of flying, some 1600K and 15 hours more.
>
> Now, I really promise, I won't even LOOK at the sky for two weeks...
>
> P3

P3,

after 26 years of marriage and 4 years with the current 'mistress in
the trailer', it now tends to be "WELL, are you going to the field and
WHEN can I expect you home to make dinner?" A fair trade-off IMHO.

Chip F.

[CLewis95]

The key to pilot/crew relationship success is "early indoctrination".
I very clearly remember some 33 years ago explaining to my wife Vicki
(then girlfriend) that I could not spend all night talking on the
phone...I had to put another coat of dope on my model plane so I could
fly it the next day with the school model airplane club. We were
both 12 years old!

Now my wife supports my and our son's "Soaring XC Sickness" a full
110% She even answers for me when invited to weekend social
events...."If it's raining, he'll be there."

I know I am very lucky! I love her very much.

Curt Lewis - 95


On Jul 11, 12:56 pm, chipsoars > wrote:
> On Jul 11, 11:48 am, Papa3 > wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Jul 10, 10:43 pm, wrote:
>
> > > Does this ease off a bit with time? I'm only half kidding about the
> > > above. Last week I flew my best long distance flight ever, and I was
> > > no-kidding giddy about it for DAYS. Fine, but now I seem to be
> > > obsessed with getting a LONGER flight in. Am I just sick or does it
> > > affect others the same way?
>
> > > Thx
> > > Jim
>
> > I got back from a 12-day trip to a nationals where we flew 10 of the
> > days, totalling several thousand kilomers and probably 40 hours. I
> > promised the wife that I wouldn't even LOOK at the sky for two
> > weeks. A few days later, the last big cold front of spring pushes
> > through, resulting in a couple of days with 1000K potential.
>
> > Me. "Honey...."
>
> > The wife has pretty much figured it out. "You'll just be miserable
> > moping around the house and making the rest of us miserable. Just go
> > and..." No need to finish that sentence.
>
> > So, another two days of flying, some 1600K and 15 hours more.
>
> > Now, I really promise, I won't even LOOK at the sky for two weeks...
>
> > P3
>
> P3,
>
> after 26 years of marriage and 4 years with the current 'mistress in
> the trailer', it now tends to be "WELL, are you going to the field and
> WHEN can I expect you home to make dinner?" A fair trade-off IMHO.
>
> Chip F.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

[Bruce]

My good wife frequently points out that she married me for better or worse (21
years ago)- but NOT for every weekend at the club and certainly not for driving
retrieves.

She thus encourages me to spend quality time with the mistress, and even buys
the mistress gadgets to enhance the liaison. Sometimes one wonders whether her
encouragement to go flying is entirely altruistic, but I am not complaining...

Did nobody mention the sickness has side effects including, but not limited to
inexplicable cravings for arcane software, and exorbitantly priced GPS devices
that can't tell you what road you are on, and any number of other fripperies.

Oh - and then L/D envy starts setting in, and sufferers start surreptitiously
collecting vital statistics information and suggestive pictures.

Enjoy it.
Bruce

chipsoars wrote:
> On Jul 11, 11:48 am, Papa3 > wrote:
>> On Jul 10, 10:43 pm, wrote:
>>
>>> Does this ease off a bit with time? I'm only half kidding about the
>>> above. Last week I flew my best long distance flight ever, and I was
>>> no-kidding giddy about it for DAYS. Fine, but now I seem to be
>>> obsessed with getting a LONGER flight in. Am I just sick or does it
>>> affect others the same way?
>>> Thx
>>> Jim
>> I got back from a 12-day trip to a nationals where we flew 10 of the
>> days, totalling several thousand kilomers and probably 40 hours. I
>> promised the wife that I wouldn't even LOOK at the sky for two
>> weeks. A few days later, the last big cold front of spring pushes
>> through, resulting in a couple of days with 1000K potential.
>>
>> Me. "Honey...."
>>
>> The wife has pretty much figured it out. "You'll just be miserable
>> moping around the house and making the rest of us miserable. Just go
>> and..." No need to finish that sentence.
>>
>> So, another two days of flying, some 1600K and 15 hours more.
>>
>> Now, I really promise, I won't even LOOK at the sky for two weeks...
>>
>> P3
>
> P3,
>
> after 26 years of marriage and 4 years with the current 'mistress in
> the trailer', it now tends to be "WELL, are you going to the field and
> WHEN can I expect you home to make dinner?" A fair trade-off IMHO.
>
> Chip F.
>

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On Jul 11, 12:40 pm, Bruce > wrote:
> My good wife frequently points out that she married me for better or worse (21
> years ago)- but NOT for every weekend at the club and certainly not for driving
> retrieves.
>
> She thus encourages me to spend quality time with the mistress, and even buys
> the mistress gadgets to enhance the liaison. Sometimes one wonders whether her
> encouragement to go flying is entirely altruistic, but I am not complaining...
>
> Did nobody mention the sickness has side effects including, but not limited to
> inexplicable cravings for arcane software, and exorbitantly priced GPS devices
> that can't tell you what road you are on, and any number of other fripperies.
>
> Oh - and then L/D envy starts setting in, and sufferers start surreptitiously
> collecting vital statistics information and suggestive pictures.
>
> Enjoy it.
> Bruce
>
>
>
> chipsoars wrote:
> > On Jul 11, 11:48 am, Papa3 > wrote:
> >> On Jul 10, 10:43 pm, wrote:
>
> >>> Does this ease off a bit with time? I'm only half kidding about the
> >>> above. Last week I flew my best long distance flight ever, and I was
> >>> no-kidding giddy about it for DAYS. Fine, but now I seem to be
> >>> obsessed with getting a LONGER flight in. Am I just sick or does it
> >>> affect others the same way?
> >>> Thx
> >>> Jim
> >> I got back from a 12-day trip to a nationals where we flew 10 of the
> >> days, totalling several thousand kilomers and probably 40 hours. I
> >> promised the wife that I wouldn't even LOOK at the sky for two
> >> weeks. A few days later, the last big cold front of spring pushes
> >> through, resulting in a couple of days with 1000K potential.
>
> >> Me. "Honey...."
>
> >> The wife has pretty much figured it out. "You'll just be miserable
> >> moping around the house and making the rest of us miserable. Just go
> >> and..." No need to finish that sentence.
>
> >> So, another two days of flying, some 1600K and 15 hours more.
>
> >> Now, I really promise, I won't even LOOK at the sky for two weeks...
>
> >> P3
>
> > P3,
>
> > after 26 years of marriage and 4 years with the current 'mistress in
> > the trailer', it now tends to be "WELL, are you going to the field and
> > WHEN can I expect you home to make dinner?" A fair trade-off IMHO.
>
> > Chip F.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

By the time I had a girlfriend I was using Monokote on my planes, much
to my mother's relief (dope really stinks up a bedroom). My wife has
accepted the time I put into most hobbies, but she did get a bit edgy
when I was flying U/C Fast Combat. Building 50+ planes a year for 5
contests seemed to bother her. At that, I was at least home on the
weekends by early afternoon. With soaring, I don't go to the field at
the crack of dawn, but I'm rarely home before dark.
I wonder what percentage of glider guiders flew models? I flew damn
near every weekend from 1960 to 2001. That's when the soaring
addiction started.....
Jim

[Martin Gregorie[_1_]]

wrote:
> I wonder what percentage of glider guiders flew models? I flew damn
> near every weekend from 1960 to 2001. That's when the soaring
> addiction started.....
>
I'm another. Competition model flyer from 1968 to 2003, though it
started to taper off a bit in 2000 when I started learning to fly.

Although I've flown a bit of C/L and RC during the 60s, the Free Flight
bug bit in the late 60s. Since then its all been Free Flight, mainly F1A
(towline glider) with a side helping of F1J (1/2A power).


--
martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |

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On Jul 11, 3:37 pm, wrote:
> On Jul 11, 12:40 pm, Bruce > wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > My good wife frequently points out that she married me for better or worse (21
> > years ago)- but NOT for every weekend at the club and certainly not for driving
> > retrieves.
>
> > She thus encourages me to spend quality time with the mistress, and even buys
> > the mistress gadgets to enhance the liaison. Sometimes one wonders whether her
> > encouragement to go flying is entirely altruistic, but I am not complaining...
>
> > Did nobody mention the sickness has side effects including, but not limited to
> > inexplicable cravings for arcane software, and exorbitantly priced GPS devices
> > that can't tell you what road you are on, and any number of other fripperies.
>
> > Oh - and then L/D envy starts setting in, and sufferers start surreptitiously
> > collecting vital statistics information and suggestive pictures.
>
> > Enjoy it.
> > Bruce
>
> > chipsoars wrote:
> > > On Jul 11, 11:48 am, Papa3 > wrote:
> > >> On Jul 10, 10:43 pm, wrote:
>
> > >>> Does this ease off a bit with time? I'm only half kidding about the
> > >>> above. Last week I flew my best long distance flight ever, and I was
> > >>> no-kidding giddy about it for DAYS. Fine, but now I seem to be
> > >>> obsessed with getting a LONGER flight in. Am I just sick or does it
> > >>> affect others the same way?
> > >>> Thx
> > >>> Jim
> > >> I got back from a 12-day trip to a nationals where we flew 10 of the
> > >> days, totalling several thousand kilomers and probably 40 hours. I
> > >> promised the wife that I wouldn't even LOOK at the sky for two
> > >> weeks. A few days later, the last big cold front of spring pushes
> > >> through, resulting in a couple of days with 1000K potential.
>
> > >> Me. "Honey...."
>
> > >> The wife has pretty much figured it out. "You'll just be miserable
> > >> moping around the house and making the rest of us miserable. Just go
> > >> and..." No need to finish that sentence.
>
> > >> So, another two days of flying, some 1600K and 15 hours more.
>
> > >> Now, I really promise, I won't even LOOK at the sky for two weeks...
>
> > >> P3
>
> > > P3,
>
> > > after 26 years of marriage and 4 years with the current 'mistress in
> > > the trailer', it now tends to be "WELL, are you going to the field and
> > > WHEN can I expect you home to make dinner?" A fair trade-off IMHO.
>
> > > Chip F.- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> By the time I had a girlfriend I was using Monokote on my planes, much
> to my mother's relief (dope really stinks up a bedroom). My wife has
> accepted the time I put into most hobbies, but she did get a bit edgy
> when I was flying U/C Fast Combat. Building 50+ planes a year for 5
> contests seemed to bother her. At that, I was at least home on the
> weekends by early afternoon. With soaring, I don't go to the field at
> the crack of dawn, but I'm rarely home before dark.
> I wonder what percentage of glider guiders flew models? I flew damn
> near every weekend from 1960 to 2001. That's when the soaring
> addiction started.....
> Jim- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I'm another modeler from way back. I started out like Curt building
balsa control-line stuff with tissue/dope covering. Anyone remember
the "Otto"? That was in the mid to late 60's. I've been in it all
these years and have accumulated a decent sized "squadron" of giant
scale aerobatic ships (extra, cap, edge, yak, sukhoi, etc.). I've been
gravitating to electrics little by little over the last few years, but
the gassers are still the top dogs for me. Although now that I've been
bitten (hard) by the "soaring bug", they've all been collecting a
little dust lately.

[309]

> Bruce wrote:
> Oh - and then L/D envy starts setting in, and sufferers start surreptitiously
> collecting vital statistics information and suggestive pictures.
>
> Enjoy it.
> Bruce

As previously stated, the cure for L/D envy is a 1-26 (with a nod to
the Woodstock and Cherokee drivers).

EARN it.

Yes, I did models, too...though I started with what grew into a small
armada of Cox .049 powered monstrosities, a few Sig R/C ships and an
Oly II (2 meter R/C ship from Airtronics -- I believe it had a better
L/D than my 1965 1-26 does). My mom & dad didn't need to worry about
me spending my money on drugs!!! ;-)

The crew gave me a new radio and a Zagi which I must someday finish
and learn to fly.

The "fleet" also includes a 1948 Globe Swift...hungrier than the
1-26. Add a compulsion for "home improvement" and a very bad habit
that "enables" the rest of this (a dirty four letter compulsion called
"work"), I've got the modern psychotherapist stumped.

Bottom line? Cheer up, Jim -- if ALL you have is X-C Sickness,
consider yourself to be in REALLY good shape. It could (and probably
will) be much worse.

-Pete

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On Jul 11, 11:02 am, wrote:
> > ...and it might work: distances SEEM* longer in a 1-26...you have to
> > earn those kilometers...
>
> I've kinda' got my eye on the MG33SL for sale on Wings and Wheels.
> Very pretty, 33 to one. Not down there with a 1-26, but more sporting
> than my Speed Astir.
>
> Jim

That MG33SL is a wonderful glider !
That's me flying it in the last SSA Sailplane Directory...
Go for it ! But don't fly it too fast...
Best Regards, Dave "YO"

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> As previously stated, the cure for L/D envy is a 1-26 (with a nod to
> the Woodstock and Cherokee drivers).

;)

amen brother

[kirk.stant]

On Jul 12, 9:36 am, wrote:
> > As previously stated, the cure for L/D envy is a 1-26 (with a nod to
> > the Woodstock and Cherokee drivers).

Yesterday I took a break from my glass slipper and jumped in the club
1-26. Beautiful sky (2 - 3 knots under Cus), a little bit of wind
(say 10 - 15 knots). Proceeded to spend 2 hours trying to go upwind to
"tag" the local "other" gliderport - all of 10 miles away. Got half
way there then quit in disgust ("I'm getting too old for this sh*t!"),
with an aching back/butt and ringing ears (Canopy seals? We don't need
no stinkin canopy seals!)

Landed back so I could relax doing some tows (including a 25 mile aero
retrieve) in our Pawnee.

1-26s aren't the cure, they are the disease!

Seriously - more power to those of you who have the grit to take those
little beasts XC in anything other than booming (and I mean BOOMING)
conditions! Someday I'll get drain bramaged enough to try racing in
one of them. Until then, I'll give in to my glass addiction...

66

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On Jul 12, 12:56 pm, "kirk.stant" > wrote:
> On Jul 12, 9:36 am, wrote:
>
> > > As previously stated, the cure for L/D envy is a 1-26 (with a nod to
> > > the Woodstock and Cherokee drivers).
>
> Yesterday I took a break from my glass slipper and jumped in the club
> 1-26. Beautiful sky (2 - 3 knots under Cus), a little bit of wind
> (say 10 - 15 knots). Proceeded to spend 2 hours trying to go upwind to
> "tag" the local "other" gliderport - all of 10 miles away. Got half
> way there then quit in disgust ("I'm getting too old for this sh*t!"),
> with an aching back/butt and ringing ears (Canopy seals? We don't need
> no stinkin canopy seals!)
>
> Landed back so I could relax doing some tows (including a 25 mile aero
> retrieve) in our Pawnee.
>
> 1-26s aren't the cure, they are the disease!
>
> Seriously - more power to those of you who have the grit to take those
> little beasts XC in anything other than booming (and I mean BOOMING)
> conditions! Someday I'll get drain bramaged enough to try racing in
> one of them. Until then, I'll give in to my glass addiction...
>
> 66

kirk, i figured out your problem. you tried to go upwind!

[kirk.stant]

On Jul 12, 11:38 pm, wrote:
>
> kirk, i figured out your problem. you tried to go upwind!


DOH!

MMMMMM, glass......

WooHoo, goin' racing next week! See you all at Ionia!

66
Addicted to glass, and loving every minute of it