I'd love the ability to cross large blue areas, and I know it would be
glorious to pop out the side of a towering cumulus at 20,000 and glide.
Chances are the only thing you'll be doing after entering a towering
cumulus is looking for the rip cord after your beautiful 26 has come
apart around you Eric. The last guy we know of that went IMC in a
glider was quite rudly ejected from his 26 and he's a high time power
pilot that's paid to fly IMC. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed getting my
instrument rating and flying IFR, but I think glider pilots that are
not trained to and are flying aircraft not designed to do the job of
cloud flying are going to become statistics furthermore proving our
beloveid sport is more dangerious as thought of before. I'm one of
those pilots that's in denial and think that my sport is as safe as the
next sport but looks at the stats and sees it aint so.
Gotta go to bed now it's a long drive to the glider port in the morn.
Happy flyin all!