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Only just seen this thread. I've been gliding twice the 25 years, and would
agree with lots of the comments, glass, gps, etc. I'm not sure about cost of gliders though. I can only talk about the UK, in my early days a decent glider would cost roughly the same as the average house, now they are much cheaper. Perhaps the biggest change here though is the proliferation of Controlled Airspace, reducing where we can fly on this little island. Dave At 12:41 03 November 2020, Roy B. wrote: I thought it might be fun (and healthy) to start a poll or discussion for t= he guys and gals who have been in the sport for + 25 years or more. So, my= question for those people is : "What is the biggest change you have seen i= n the sport over the years you have participated?" For me, the biggest change was the widespread adoption of GPS - which chan= ged everything about flight recording, contests, contest tasking and badge = flying. Second place goes to the newer trailers which are so much better th= an what we struggled with in the old days. Third place might be OLC . . . What do you think? ROY |
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The introduction of the fun police!
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At 13:51 05 November 2020, Justin Craig wrote:
The introduction of the fun police! And pointless "check flights" |
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On Wednesday, November 4, 2020 at 10:35:37 PM UTC-5, andy l wrote:
On Wednesday, 4 November 2020 at 21:57:24 UTC, Chip Bearden wrote: In the old days, the weatherman made an appearance in the morning and then--as it became evident that the actual conditions most closely resembled the forecast only in the day, date, and time of sunset--disappeared to craft his excuses until reappearing the following morning. Chip Bearden JB That didn't happen in any of our competitions, or in internationals I've been to. The briefings at one club are held in what we call a blister hangar, a temporary then permanent construction clad with sheets of curved corrugated steel. One day years ago the met man was telling us about showers, with occasional very heavy ... The rest of the sentence was drowned out by the sound of hailstones hitting the roof exactly on cue. I fondly remember camping at early contests in my career (remember camping.... in tents?) and being awakened by the sound of a towplane heading up to do the local sounding. That worked fine for relatively benign days such as the beginning of a period of high-pressure dominated Wx, but it often failed miserably on pre/post frontal days and other dynamic situations. The easy availability of predictive models followed by the emergence of multiple presentation platforms (DrJack, Skysight, TopMeteo, etc.) now means that pretty much every pilot is also the Weather Guy. |
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At 12:41 03 November 2020, Roy B. wrote:
I thought it might be fun (and healthy) to start a poll or discussion for t= he guys and gals who have been in the sport for + 25 years or more. So, my= question for those people is : "What is the biggest change you have seen i= n the sport over the years you have participated?" For me, the biggest change was the widespread adoption of GPS - which chan= ged everything about flight recording, contests, contest tasking and badge = flying. Second place goes to the newer trailers which are so much better th= an what we struggled with in the old days. Third place might be OLC . . |
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On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 12:45:06 PM UTC-5, Phil Jeffery wrote:
Phil: Did you expire in the middle of your post? We hope not ROY |
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At 14:32 07 November 2020, Roy B. wrote:
On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 12:45:06 PM UTC-5, Phil Jeffery wrote: Phil: Did you expire in the middle of your post? We hope not ROY Not quite yet Roy, thanks for your concern. For some reason ras cut off my post. Presumably it offended someone, I'm very used to that! I was complementing your choice of subject and bemoaning now getting competitively dicked by grandchildren of pilots I flew with in the 1950s and 1960s. Phil |
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On Saturday, 7 November 2020 at 17:30:07 UTC, Phil Jeffery wrote:
At 14:32 07 November 2020, Roy B. wrote: On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 12:45:06 PM UTC-5, Phil Jeffery wrote: Phil: Did you expire in the middle of your post? We hope not ROY Not quite yet Roy, thanks for your concern. For some reason ras cut off my post. Presumably it offended someone, I'm very used to that! I was complementing your choice of subject and bemoaning now getting competitively dicked by grandchildren of pilots I flew with in the 1950s and 1960s. Phil For me, the relentlessly increasing time and effort involved in getting out of the cockpit with a chute on. |
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John Galloway wrote on 11/7/2020 10:16 AM:
On Saturday, 7 November 2020 at 17:30:07 UTC, Phil Jeffery wrote: At 14:32 07 November 2020, Roy B. wrote: On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 12:45:06 PM UTC-5, Phil Jeffery wrote: Phil: Did you expire in the middle of your post? We hope not ROY Not quite yet Roy, thanks for your concern. For some reason ras cut off my post. Presumably it offended someone, I'm very used to that! I was complementing your choice of subject and bemoaning now getting competitively dicked by grandchildren of pilots I flew with in the 1950s and 1960s. Phil For me, the relentlessly increasing time and effort involved in getting out of the cockpit with a chute on. More exercise, or a glider with BRS (that's my solution), so you don't need a parachute. Or an inner-tube sort of thing to sit on, that can be inflated to raise you 6" or so. -- Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me) - "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation" https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...ad-the-guide-1 |
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On Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at 10:41:15 AM UTC-2, Roy B. wrote:
I thought it might be fun (and healthy) to start a poll or discussion for the guys and gals who have been in the sport for + 25 years or more. So, my question for those people is : "What is the biggest change you have seen in the sport over the years you have participated?" For me, the biggest change was the widespread adoption of GPS - which changed everything about flight recording, contests, contest tasking and badge flying. Second place goes to the newer trailers which are so much better than what we struggled with in the old days. Third place might be OLC . . . What do you think? ROY Yes, I still have a self made prayer wheel, which was quite reliable in the Kestrel; it also had a map section on the back overlaid with spirals of altitude needed with glide ratios around the periphery. What has changed? GPS was major change. What I did not miss ( as a competition pilot no longer) is FREE DISTANCE with the seemingly inevitable overnight costly retrieve. This was a mandatory task for years in US and Cdn rules, a cop-out for task setters when they were faced with uncertain weather; those I remember Adrian '65, Regina '66, Marfa '67 (360 miles), Red Deer '69, Yugoslavia '72, all over 400km, many times more than the task setters said would be possible; maybe they were fun for the pilot but the distance for a mandatory rest day , (sometimes two days) was always exceeded, which spoiled the contest and cost a lot of money, some accidents and repairs, and proved very little , except that top pilots can go a long way downwind in uncertain conditions. John Firth |
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