
December 3rd 16, 11:20 PM
posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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AOPA PILOT
So, did he fly with G or Gavin or both?
At 14:46 01 December 2016, Charlie Papa wrote:
The current issue of AOPA PILOT features an article I wrote about flying
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Omarama New Zealand titled IN PRAISE OF SOARING. I think it can be
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ed by non-AOPA members at
https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2016=
/december/pilot/in-praise-of-soaring . =20
I wrote it for an audience of power pilots who often show an attitude of
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ndescension to gliders. So I chose to use one of my fellow mountain
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course students, - Marty, and relate his remarkable tale of bailing out
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an F-104 with a dead engine. Marty is arguably a pilot's pilot, with
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hours in fighters, and his current mount, a Turbine Legend (if you are
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familiar with this one, start with the fact that it has an appetite for
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t A that consumes 52 gph). =20
Marty's third flight in a real glider, - if you discount the 104 ride,
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after two conversion flights in a Grob 103, and was with the boss, Gavin
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lls. =20
Marty's verdict: the best flight of his life!
So I hope it will give Power pilots cause to rethink their attitude to
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ing, and even to get an add-on rating. I hope you enjoy it too.
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