On Jun 11, 11:30 am, Stealth Pilot
wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:38:20 -0700 (PDT), Tina
wrote:

gets the wheels spinning straight away. you can scuff tires badly in a
greaser..

Bertie

I think you're in a lot of trouble when a primary gauge is a piece of
yarn taped to the windscreen!

standard is a twinings or tetleys tea bag string.

Viperdoc said he's flying in France! Are you telling me the French
would use an English tea bag? You have just destroyed my whole image
of French nationalism.

In Elmira NY where I took two glider flights the instructor had a real
sense of humor. He taped a piece of pink yarn on the window. (No, he
was not being sexist, just funny). I have that piece of yarn taped
into a scrap book now. For what it's worth the instructor claimed I
bruised his knees I was yanking the stick around so much. Can you say
'over controlling'?

The yarn actually did point straight back for a couple of minutes
during that flight, most often when it was on the way from one side to
the other.