Cars making you nuts?

Take a minute.

In through the nose, out through the mouth ....

Glasshoppah .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGDIZAM6_sg&feature=related

Thats pretty awesome. It would be cool to hitch a ride in a tandem glider.

Anti, contact a local Club, they can take you up.

I got Mrs. 914 up late last summer, she loved it but politely declined the offer to drive.

http://southerneaglessoaring.com/

Dan

I want to hang glide pretty freaking bad.

Taiden wrote: I want to hang glide pretty freaking bad.

I can understand that but get all the training you can first. A friend of mine was killed doing it.

Do you think hang gliding is more dangerous than gliding? (Assuming proper training for both.)

Taiden wrote: Do you think hang gliding is more dangerous than gliding? (Assuming proper training for both.)

I've done both, currently taking lessons for Soaring. Hang Gliding is less structured for instruction, records keeping and examinations. There are exams and levels of achievement but is is not accountable to the FAA.

Soaring is like driving a Crown Vic, very fast, comfy, quiet, good visibility and you can cove quite a bit of ground!

Hang Gliding is like riding a scooter, it's slower, more wind in the face, hangs in a much lower altitude than a Sailplane; but on the flip side you can set it up in 15 minutes, carry it on the roof of your car and you don't need to be towed up.

I flew in the early through mid 80s at a time when Ultralights were developing. People didn't have the patience to run around with a hang glider on flat ground learning how to make it fly and gradually going up higher and higher "bunny hills". Once you get some time and achieve the level where you run off a cliff, you have some basic skills down pat, folks that fwent from zero the 4000 ft. in an Ultralight don't have some of those skills. Unfortunately you don't hear about the five or six people that take a sled ride off Mt. Greylock after work instead of sitting in a dark smokey bar, but everyone hears about the yahoo that drops into mini-mart parking lot.

Because the FAA was hinting to require licensing on anything/anyone that left the ground, the USHGA divorced itself from anything with an engine. I believe they have made up since.

I like Sailplanes better. I belong to a club of like minded folk, all are pretty easy going and always ready to talk about their ship or offer guidance. Because we have to interact with private and commercial traffic at an airport you learn FAA stuff, rules of the road and expected courtesies.

Like I said, I got Mrs. 914 to go up, she liked it and it's nice to have the Budget Office in my corner.

This morning I called about an ASW-15B for sale in Pennsylvania; good deal, within my budget but unfortunately it was gone in six hours.

Let me know if you hook a ride, I'd be interested in your perspective.

Dan

http://www.wingsandwheels.com/wantads1.htm

I'm thinking of getting myself down to kittyhawk to do a few training sessions. kitty hawk kites were quoting $99 for 3 hours of beginners training including all gear. These seems incredibly cheap to me.

Do it. Trained by professionals in a controlled environment, it will make a decision easier.

Bring a camera........

Dan

We have a glider outfit in my town. A few friends soar there. Sent my wife up for her birthday. Hoping to go up myself sometime this summer. I think I'd love to do it, but my wallet can't justify another hobby.