Nine Bravo Ground wrote:
Good lists.

The only things I've forgotten multiple times a

Drinking water (sitting on the hose)
Oxygen (main valve closed)
Sunglasses (left in the car)

They won't cause an accident - but the first two require coming back
to land.

Just in case you haven't thought of this:

* water is a tough one. I've used a clip to hold it out of the way; the
current glider, it just goes in the side pocket.

* invent/devise/whatever a cable/lever/remote electric valve that lets
you open the bottle while flying. I used bicycle cable to a simple
bolt-on lever to the oxygen knob on the bottle in my Libelle. Easy - it
only has to be cracked less than a quarter turn. My other four gliders
had the bottle where a determined pilot could reach back to the baggage
area or beside himself and turn it on.

* buy a pair of sunglasses that _never_ leave the glider (easy for me
because I don't have prescription glasses, but cheez! at least put a
pair of clip-ons in the pocket!).

--
Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (netto to net to email me)

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