Gear Warning

Don Johnstone wrote:


I agree that with the right glider, a competent and
experienced pilot it might not be a problem and then
again such a pilot would not need the warning in the
first place.

Oh yeah?
--
Real name is richard
(3000 hours, landed wheel up in 1974 and again in 1996)

"Richard Brisbourne" wrote in message
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Don Johnstone wrote:


I agree that with the right glider, a competent and
experienced pilot it might not be a problem and then
again such a pilot would not need the warning in the
first place.

Oh yeah?
--
Real name is richard
(3000 hours, landed wheel up in 1974 and again in 1996)

In the following true story the names, places and dates are deleted to
protect the guilty.

An instructor is briefing an NTSB investigator for his Glider Private Pilot
Practical Test, when just outside the window a glider slides past on its
belly making crunchy noises. The NTSB guy notices.

"Hey!", he exclaims. "Am I supposed to report that?" "Uh, no", the
instructor mumbles, "Happens all the time - never much damage". He
reluctantly buys that and briefing continues.

By the time the briefing is finished, the glider has disappeared into its
trailer and the pilot and glider are on their way to a repair shop.

Bildan

Richard Brisbourne wrote in
:

Real name is richard
(3000 hours, landed wheel up in 1974 and again in 1996)


There are those who have, those who will, and those who will do it again!
-Bob Korves
(2400 hours and still, luckily, one of those who will)