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Thanks Steve, good feedback and I like the process evaluation you describe.
Tools like SeeYou are terrific for that. For the record, 300 feet is way too low for me too! -ted "Steve Hill" wrote in message ... Ted, in my humble opinion you are doing one of the healthiest things you can do for yourself for your long term survival as a sailplane pilot. Expose your mistakes and share them. As a cross over hang glider pilot, I have made all sorts of small mistakes, I like to think I learned from most of them. What I am completely convinced of is the need to not evaluate your successes or failures at this early point in your soaring by the "how high, how far, how fast" methodology, but instead, to evaluate your process...download your flights and determine how many of your decisions were ones that could have had bad conclusions, and then use those as a means to improve your decision making with each subsequent flight...I generally don't say much here, it's more fun to simply watch the banter, but on this front I do feel compelled to suggest that ALL cross country soaring pilots should be trying to share more of the information we use in our own process. To me, 300 feet is WAY too low to be trying to climb back up...once in awhile you'll get away with it...but not every time. And the one time it kills you, the pundits here will have more fodder for the tireless " Well anyone could see it was gonna happen sooner or later"'s...My two cents worth ain't worth what it used to be, but keep sharing those flights...if you aren't sure if it was dumb...ask somebody.."Hey would YOU have done this..?" and then be prepared for the outcome. In this case you got away with something. We've probably ALL gotten away with something ourselves...but if we share a bit more of what was going through our head, we can hopefully relegate some of the future visits to funerals... Steve DG-400 4-93 |
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