On Apr 23, 8:09*pm, Tony wrote:
Not too bad for a Geezer. *After all that circling can you walk in a straight line?

The link you posted went to a big long flight in a DG-800. *Trying to pull one over on us? This is more like it:http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2......html?dsId=229...

You're way behind on landout percentage!

Thanks Kid, for fixin' that link. I should otta have gotten me some
technical help 'afore tryin' somethin' fancy like putting in that
link.
Respondin' ta your question, I gots ta admit I was a bit wobbly after
I dun got outa that thing. But like I said before, I been practicin'
on the ground
in a spinnin' chair, knowin' I was goin' ta be tryin' to up my
thermalin' time much's possible, so I dun got pretty used to all that
circlin', even though
this done been the first good flight this soarin' season. I been
readn' some a them articles by that sawbones flyin' doctor what goes
by the name a "Dan Johnson",
so I was ready for that there cold air diuresis effect he been
talkin' about. I do gots to figure me out a better relief set up fer
the GAPA, 'cause what with all that
wind and all, you can 'magine what happens if'n you gots to relieve
yourself up there. If'n you had to let it fly, it'd be purty near
disatrous, not to be mentionin'
d#$!@m near embarissin' when you got back to the aerodrome.

Case you be wonderin' here's a pitcher a me and my sidekick. I think
we done
settled on the nickname a "Bart" for him, 'stead a his natural born
name, 'cause it's lots easier for us 'mericans that way.

http://www.soaravenal.com/26-Belts9-4-10.jpg

You can see we's payin' special
'ttention to that there seat belt on the GAPA. Lot's a people that's
thought 'bout flyin' it kinda change their minds sometimes when they
see that it's got
the same kind a seatbelt like unto the PW-5, whereby if you
accidently grabs the wrong strap whilst tryin' ta tighten your
seatbelt, you just might pull the wrong
one and unstrap
yo'self completely! But nots to worry, the GAPA still has a little
old failsafe feature whereby it gots some toe straps on the rudder
peddles. You'd still be hangin' from
those toestraps if'n you was to fall out! Course, it might take some
purty hefty upper body strength to ever pull yo'self back in I
reckin'! Hopin' I never have to try that out!
I got's to admit my confidence was a might shaken the other day when
Bart was readn' that GAPA manual in Polish by hisself, and then when
he gets in the GAPA, I sees he's rigged up a little rubber band
contraption on the seatbelt release so's it won't come undone so easy.
Kind of makes me wonder like maybe there's somethin' in
that Polish Manual he done seen he didn't tell me 'bout!

Signed,

X

The Gapa Geezer