Lookin' for the Cherokee Kid

On Apr 5, 1:55*pm, Tony wrote:
On Thursday, April 5, 2012 1:48:51 PM UTC-5, vontresc wrote:
Does that mean that GapaGeezer is perhaps Pez D Spencer????



Pete

nah if it was Pez he'd challenge me in the Spitzer Gollywomper. *Surely the Gapa can at least get out of sight of the airport by the end of the afternoon

Well Kid, I ain't a gonna say much 'till I go out an make a bona-fide
flight, now that I dun' set up that challenge.
Maybe that way, 'case I chicken out, nobody'd be the wiser. I don't
mind telllin' ya my knees is knockin' a bit thinkin'
about where I might be landin' that thing!

Signed,

X

The GAPA Geezer

On Thursday, April 5, 2012 6:11:26 PM UTC-5, Gapa Geezer wrote:
On Apr 5, 1:55*pm, Tony wrote:
On Thursday, April 5, 2012 1:48:51 PM UTC-5, vontresc wrote:
Does that mean that GapaGeezer is perhaps Pez D Spencer????



Pete

nah if it was Pez he'd challenge me in the Spitzer Gollywomper. *Surely the Gapa can at least get out of sight of the airport by the end of the afternoon

Well Kid, I ain't a gonna say much 'till I go out an make a bona-fide
flight, now that I dun' set up that challenge.
Maybe that way, 'case I chicken out, nobody'd be the wiser. I don't
mind telllin' ya my knees is knockin' a bit thinkin'
about where I might be landin' that thing!

Signed,

X

The GAPA Geezer

with a 2.15 handicap you won't have to go far!

On Thursday, April 5, 2012 5:52:00 PM UTC-7, Tony wrote:
On Thursday, April 5, 2012 6:11:26 PM UTC-5, Gapa Geezer wrote:
On Apr 5, 1:55*pm, Tony wrote:
On Thursday, April 5, 2012 1:48:51 PM UTC-5, vontresc wrote:
Does that mean that GapaGeezer is perhaps Pez D Spencer????



Pete

nah if it was Pez he'd challenge me in the Spitzer Gollywomper. *Surely the Gapa can at least get out of sight of the airport by the end of the afternoon

Well Kid, I ain't a gonna say much 'till I go out an make a bona-fide
flight, now that I dun' set up that challenge.
Maybe that way, 'case I chicken out, nobody'd be the wiser. I don't
mind telllin' ya my knees is knockin' a bit thinkin'
about where I might be landin' that thing!

Signed,

X

The GAPA Geezer

with a 2.15 handicap you won't have to go far!

Good goin’ Kid on Satuday! Ya dun skunked me good, faar and squaar!
But I gots ‘ta say I was right pleased that I got me my very first OLC GAPA flight that
same day what wasn't
grayed out! Just snuck into the bonafidee catagory with a whoppin’ 59.9 Km scorin’
distance. No. 109 for the day in the good old US of A! Right down at the very bottom of
page 3. I see you was up a ways from me at the bottom of page 2.

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0...l?dsId=2293427

But looks like I did beat you in one category, that ‘a thermalin’ percentage time.
Mine were 71.63 and yours were 62.21. Maybe if you keep a watchin’ what I’m doin’, you can
gets your percent thermalin’ time up higher like mine!
I dun kept that GAPA up for 'bout nigh on to 2hours and 10 minutes. I had me the trailer hooked up and had me 'nother qualified Geezer name 'a “Del Blomquist” for my
crew - he's 87, so he's even older 'n me, a genuine Geezer fo’ sure.
I was figurin’ it’d be straight out distance fo’ sure, bein’ as how the
GAPA can’t go ‘gainst the wind for nothin’. But lo’ and behold, when
I got up there, if there warn’t hardly no wind at all, so I dun changed my
strategy and changed over to that there “Yo-Yo” category I been hearin’
‘bout. That was purty nice, ‘cause then I could stay ‘lot closer to the aerodrome.
But I did get purty low a couple of times. Once when I saw this high performance
machine they be callin’ a “2-33” circlin’ a mile or so away
‘an went in underneath him, but he didn’t really have nothin’, and flew off ‘bout as
soon as I started circlin’. That left
me downwind ‘a the aerodrome, ‘an d#!%$ed if I wasn’t too low to get back! Praise be
‘ta the almighty that I dun snagged me a thermal ‘a my own whilst headn’ for this
landin’ field I had me picked out, and got myself back up. That’ll teach me to
not be a leachin’ offen them high performance superships like unto that 2-33 in the
future.
I coulda’ stayed up even longer, but guest what? Just like a ‘lot a other super-hero’s,
I done found me a side-kick, name ‘a “Bartolomiej Klusek” what likes to fly the
GAPA ‘bout as much as I do. He’s a lot younger than me and a lot taller, but that’s OK
for a Geezer side-kick and actu’lly has some ‘vantages. He was wantin’ to make hisself a flight that day two, so I dun came down to let him have ago at it. Turns out he was born in POLAND, so’s it’s just like havin’ my own factory GAPA representative right here on the premises!
Darned if he can even read the manual that came with the GAPA, so we dun learn’t some new
stuff we never knowed b’fore! Too bad I dun hogged all the good thermals for the
day, so he didn’t get hisself a very good flight, but I’ll let him try again later. That first name ‘a
his is a real mouthful, we goin’ to have to find a good sidekick nickname for him if’n we get
syndeecated by Marvel Comics someday. I got to admits that I’m not two comfortable
with that super-hero logo. It’s kinda against my natural born modesty, but anyways, it warn’t my
idea, somebody else in that there local Avenal glider club done come up with it. But I also got’s to admit that idea of the Geezer a swoopin’ down and landin’ in the
GAPA at the scene of some injustice and rightin’ them wrongs and such is mighty
appealin’, leastwise in my imagination, anyways.

Man, there was a lot ‘a gliders up on Saturday! I be apologizin’ in advance if’n
I dun set off any ‘a them there FLARMS. If’n I did get that close to any of ‘em, I sure
didn’t see ‘um. I remember I dun accidently set off somebody’s car alarm over
at the WallyWorld (Walmart) parkin’ lot a couple ‘a times and it sure was embarrasin’! Man that
Whoop! Whoop! Woop! sound that loud like that a reverbiratin’ inside them cockpits would sure do a number on a guy’s ears I’ll bet! Hope nobody had ta go ta the Hospital to have their
eardrums patched or ‘nothin. Well, this be getting’ a bit wordy, so I’ll be a signin’ off.

Signed,

X

The GAPA Geezer

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-2.0...l?dsId=2293324

You're way behind on landout percentage!

On Apr 23, 1:09*pm, Tony wrote:
You're way behind on landout percentage!

Well, I managed to put the Gapa in a field yesterday. Just short of
the airport.

Geezer's Sidekick

On Monday, April 23, 2012 1:54:12 PM UTC-7, Bart wrote:
On Apr 23, 1:09*pm, Tony wrote:
You're way behind on landout percentage!

Well, I managed to put the Gapa in a field yesterday. Just short of
the airport.

Geezer's Sidekick

I'm going to have to find a Google Translate filter for Gapa Geezer speak. I'm just happy to see everyone having fun with the Gapa.

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

Well I did my best to up my circling % today, up in the 70's today so we're in the same leauge. Can't help but notice you had to step up to the high performance SGS 2-33 today. The performance will spoil you if you're not careful.

On May 5, 6:02*pm, Tony wrote:
Well I did my best to up my circling % today, up in the 70's today so we're in the same leauge. Can't help but notice you had to step up to the high performance SGS 2-33 today. *The performance will spoil you if you're not careful.

Good Job Kid on Saturday! I knows it can be purty windy out there in
Kansas, I done flewed there at at that there Sunflower place once back
in the last century, lemmisee, think it was 'round about the 1980s or
so, but you done good fer tryin' anyways.
Fact is, it was purty windy here in Cali. two. Sorry 'bout resortin'
to usin' that 2-33 supership, but there's this
local kid been hanging 'round the Avenal gliderdrome lately, comes out
on his bicycle and been helpin' with the
towropes, tyin' down and such. So I 'decided to give him a ride. He
didn't get sick or 'nothin, and seemed to have
a good ol' time of it. But, somethin's goin' wrong, my thermalin'
percentage time done dropped way down to 53.53, I
can see I gots a lot of work ta do. We gots one guy in this Avenal
club name 'a Morgan Hall that really needs a
lot 'a coachin' - his thermalin' percentage time is a way down about
8% lately. He's a former hangin' glider piluot,
so I think maybe he's got some wrong mental concepts or somthin'.

Signed,

X

The Gapa Geezer