Originally Posted by
Cat Funt
There are two types of people on their first solo circuit: talkers and singers.
I was a singer, 'The Windmills of your Mind' from The Thomas Crown Affair when I soloed at the Two Rivers Gliding Club at Laarbruch in 74/75. Sang the same song when I soloed a microlight at Halton a couple of decades later. Prior to those memorable occasions I soloed a parachute at Neatheravon when I was definitely a talker, just one word, 'f...' and repeated throughout the drop. As the world got nearer to my feet it changed to 'Oh f...'