Can you imagine living in Wiener Neustadt, people could call you a
Weiner!!!....LOL

I guess thats worse than my dad being a Hamburger(ie from Hamburg
Germany)

On the lingo, well thats just cool dude, peace out!!!. Nothing like
having your own generations lingo, and I 46 hang with my step kids 15 &
13 and have learned to communicate in their Lingo here in SoCal.

Fly = good, cool
Diss = insult
Homie = a close friend
Bust a move = dance
Bust a cap = shoot
cracker = White person emulating a black persons style
emo = people that like hard played emotional music
like = a word to say while your thinking of what to say
next(translating english to lingo?)

I guess us glider pilots have our own lingo, especially to a 16 yr old.

Geee Pee Ess(GPS) = Knowing where you are
L over D = Fly(good) performance
Cu's = puffy clouds
CuNims = Thunder storm clouds
Wave = air that goes up way to high(like catnip for pilots)
scud = nasty broken clouds down low after a storm
Vee En Eee(Vne) = How fast you can go!
Doing a Pullup = What you do so you dont hit the ground(They were
relieved to know I did not mean crapping in diapers from their lingo)
Flare = What you do to land soft
Running downwind = going fast and far as you can

Its all good

Ray


TTaylor at cc.usu.edu wrote:
wrote:
btw I wonder if that glider field in Austria was near Wiener Neustadt
... where I was introduced to gliding in summer 2002 ... what a
beautiful part of the world.

This would be about 70 km northwest of Wiener Neustadt. I was last in
W. N. for the worlds in 1989. Great site.

Tim