There isn't half of a flash-bang when you run into a set.
Agreed. Although I was happily on the ground watching the Thorpe T18 doing its impression of a submarine approach.
Equally impressive was the way its momentum had it careering wildly down the runway sans canopy and with the vertical stabilizer knocked back through 90 degrees. One of the wires hadn't broken, ran up the top of the cowling and hooked the canopy locking handle and then the top of the fin in quick succession.
Of course, blacking out the neighbours' power gave them just another argument for trying to close down the airstrip.
I'm just a low hour PPL with small packets of flying spread over 45 years. I've had the wires dream during my lengthy non-flying periods but they seem to go away when I can scratch the itch.