SENIORS CONTEST

U and I are not going to agree on this...just give
the 'skills to do this' nonsense a rest.

What we choose to do is not linked to skills....

U wanna do this every flight...be my guest




At 02:30 18 March 2005, Kilo Charlie wrote:

'Stewart Kissel' wrote in
message ...


If these things are so important to u....why not finish
every flight this way?

Maybe it will scare you just thinking about it but
we DO finish every flight
this way in Arizona! In fact on a day that none of
us could get over tow
release height I saw one of my esteemed colleagues
do a pass down the runway
at about 50 feet. He was having fun and we all enjoyed
watching it since it
was pretty much the highlight of the day. It is nothing
less than a
precision manuever and if it bothers you and you don't
have the skills to
perform it then by no means are any of us pushing you
to do it but please do
not criticize those of us that enjoy it and do it well.

Casey Lenox
KC
Phoenix

"Stewart Kissel" wrote in
message .

What we choose to do is not linked to skills....


Maybe this explains some things..... ;-)

KC

Stewart,

I think you've lit on something. The difference between glider pilots
and racers. Yes, there is a difference. If I am not improving my skills
in some meaningful, measurable way, I lose interest in a sport very,
very quickly. It is ALL about the skills. I know Kilo Charlie well. I
know he gets this. So do many other pilots. It doesn't make us better
or worse. It simply means we operate under a different set of
priorities. Safety is one of them. But I think we're willing to put a
lot more effort into developing the skills necessary to be safe in more
varied and dynamic enivornments than many other pilots.

A decade ago, the sport lost one of chiefest skills: navigation. More
recently it has been peleton tactics. Some changes have been well
received: I didn't mind discarding the skills I'd learned in managing
the high speed start gate, by far the most dangerous environment we
faced. But recent attempts to use "safety" as a rubric for
ill-considered changes in rules and practices have increasingly "dumbed
down" the sport without really improving its safety. Seems safer. But
seems ain't is.

OC