On Nov 8, 12:27*am, Mike Ash wrote:
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*Jim Logajan wrote:

Mike Ash wrote:
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*george wrote:
What, might I ask, are you flying?

I'm part owner of an ASW-20. It's an incredibly wonderful machine.

You should point him to your web site Mike! I.e.:

http://www.mikeash.com/?page=my_glider.html

Heh, duh.... I completely forgot I even had that page. Thanks for the
reminder.

--
Mike Ash
Radio Free Earth
Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon

I had one flight in a glider, decades ago. Not that I overcontrolled
or anything, but the instructor had bruises on his thighs from the
stick banging from side to side. Control pressures with a yoke vs a
stick were an adventure and keeping the piece of yarn pointing
straight back . . . well, it did that when passing from left to right
to left. . . The Mooney's controls are responsive, it's like
thinking the change in attitude and the airplane does it. That glider
however was a mind reader -- and it was hardly a high performance
machine.

For now, it'll be point to point SEL, hoping for solid IMC, where I
use 9 gallons of lift an hour.

I did get lots of the other kind of lift once, flew into an embedded
thunderstorm in CO: got to 22,000 feet with a pegged rate of climb.
Center assured me I had clearance for unrestricted climb when I told
them what happened, and later, unrestricted descent when the downdraft
took over. When it was all over the controller told me to resume
normal nav, and thanked me for not crashing because "there's so much
paperwork to fill out at this end. . .".