In article .com,
"Bob Kuykendall" wrote:

Yeah, technically, he bent a rule here and there, and I don't condone
that. But these days I feel a heck of a lot less inclined to be casting
the first stone. If it'd been me up there with almost literally
once-in-a-lifetime conditions, I can't say for sure I'd have done any
different.

I don't know the details of this flight, but here in NZ we seem to be
having huge numbers of problems with gliders being denied access to
airspace. Even Terry Delore and Steve Fossett have problems with this
-- see Terry's book. It doesn't seem to matter that the glider may be
on a world record attempt, or that the pilot has thousands of hours
experience, or that a C152 with someone on thir first cross-country
would be allowed into that airspace, or that the conflicting traffic is
one flight due to arrive in an hour's time -- or even no traffic at all.

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