Originally Posted by
cats_five
For flying gliders I would have thought it of very little value until you are an aspiring XC pilot when Condor is probably the toy of choice.
I once took somebody for a flight and I asked them if they'd ever done any flying before. They said they hadn't (not even as a passenger on an airliner). Showed them what to do, handed the controls over and they flew beautifully. After landing (which I did!) I asked them again about their experience and their comment was "no, I've never flown an aeroplane but I fly MS-Flight Sim loads!".
Originally Posted by
cats_five
Gliding is a very pure, deceptively simple form of flying.
I must be doing it wrong then!