On one of my first gliding solo's I remember pulling back far too hard at the top of the launch, broke the cable, causing a 1000ft of wire to drift downwind and wrap itself around the nearby hydro electric power lines. The flash, spectacular as it was, unfortunately blew all the power to the local town for 4 hours! To say I wasnt popular was a slight understatement! The moral of the story was we probably shouldnt have been launching in the first place given the wind direction. The club learnt a lesson the hard way, just unfortunate I was the "guinea pig" so to speak. We've since paid lots of money to the hydro to have the power lines buried.
That's classic
Having finished my basic flying training at Cranwell, I went to Leeming to do a short flying course whilst waiting for a Gnat course. After the Leeming course, back to hold at Cranwell for a couple more months.
One day, I flew back to Leeming with an instructor in a JP5. My approach, so the usual 300 kt 300 ft run-in-and-break. Called initials, smacked it over onto its side, pulled like a bug ger, rolled out on final......
For the wrong RW!
I'd joined for the correct one, but pulled too tight and ended up nicely set up on the wrong one. Went round with the instructor pi$$ing himself with laughter!
That's just plain scary. 300 kts at 300' - show off
Keep 'em coming!
V1R