"... asking them to spend 12 hours and the rest at a gliding site in the summer with chocolate bars and soft drinks in a cool box and a nice dry patch of grass for significant other to sit on with maybe a couple of ten minute circuits (or indeed no flying at all)"
You missed the bit about pushing the glider 1 mile back to the launch point when the instructor practises a cable break at 200ft
(well that's how far I used to push em when launched by motor tow from Farnborough's 1.5 mile runway!)
Last edited by JP1; 15th Jun 2011 at 21:25.
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