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I started flying in July and I got my private pilot certificate in April This page marks some of my personal records and interesting flights. While I don't expect my achievements to be gliders bitcoin reviews remarkable to other glider pilots, they make for a nice indicator of my progress. If you've ever wondered what it's like to be a glider pilot, read my day in the life story. If you've ever wanted to be one, or just want to have a taste of silent flight, check out Skyline Soaring or look at the Soaring Society of America's Where to Fly page.

You can also see my list of landouts. I got to practice some turns and speed control and watch my instructor handle the takeoff, tow, and landing. July 23, - First lift 30 minutes, release altitude ft, Front Royal This was my first soaring flight, where we gained altitude gliders bitcoin reviews flying in a thermal. I also had the luck to share that thermal with another club glider, circling with it only a couple of hundred feet below.

I also managed to fly a large portion of the tow on this flight. September 17, - First solo 20 minutes, release altitude ft, Front Royal After a hard day's flying, while we walked the glider back up to the end of the runway, my instructor started fiddling in the back seat gliders bitcoin reviews talking about securing the straps and locking the canopy.

Soon after, I was sitting on the runway in the glider all alone. It was late in the day, the sun gliders bitcoin reviews low, and all the thermals had died, but I spent 20 glorious minutes flying back and forth through the valley all alone. September 21, - First solo in G 1 hour 6 minutes, release altitude ft, max altitude ft, Front Royal This was a great flight on a beautiful day. I released feet early because I saw that the day was booming.

Of course, I spent a couple of minutes after release finding absolutely nothing and wondering about the wisdom of my choice before I hit a great thermal at about feet. This was the first time I ever saw the variometer peg up, when I found a thermal that was at least feet per minute.

I finally brought it back down with spoilers because other people were waiting to fly. September 23, - First wave flying 25 minutes, release altitude ft, max altitude ft, Front Royal The day was windy, and the takeoff and tow were highly turbulent. Then at about feet everything went quiet. When we released at feet, the glider was amazingly docile, and the variometer was pointed up at feet per minute. We were in weak wave and we rode it around the valley for a while before my instructor made actually learn a few things.

October 29, - Extreme turbulence 18 minutes, release altitude ft, Front Royal This day was windy to the point of nearly shutting the club down before we flew.

It was finally decided to fly, but only advanced students with instructors could gliders bitcoin reviews. The entire flight was extremely violent. About feet short of our target release altitude it got so bad that Gliders bitcoin reviews was no longer able to hold tow position and we released early.

We spent the next while searching for lift as we got beaten up as though stuck in a washing machine on the spin cycle. The variometer would regularly hunt from peg to peg, meaning we were going between fpm up and fpm down. We tried to keep to the up parts, but it just wouldn't stay. Finally we got too low and I brought it in to land. This was the flight that gliders bitcoin reviews me realize my motion sickness problems had been cured. November 25, - Gliders bitcoin reviews single-place sailplane 18 minutes, release altitude ft, Front Royal At last I got in my ten solo flights and was deemed capable of flying the club's sole single-place glider, the " Sprite ".

This is the third type of glider I have flown. When I took my first flight in my second type of glider, gliders bitcoin reviews was very difficult to get used to, but I felt right at home in this glider from the start. It's interesting to be flying an airplane which not only doesn't have an instructor but which can't have an instructor. Otherwise this flight was unremarkable, but it must be said that the 's dive brakes are really terrible. December 2, - First flight gliders bitcoin reviews another airport 1 hour 28 minutes, release altitude ft, max altitude ft, Petersburg I went out to a Wave Camp in Petersburg, WV to see if I could get some experience with nice mountain wave.

We took an gliders bitcoin reviews high tow and found a little, but not a lot. We got towed through the rotor underneath the wave, which batted us and the tow plane around like a cat's toy, and often not in the same direction. Once we were in the wave we explored around for a while trying to find the strongest parts, but in the end we fell out of it and came back.

January 2, - Winter wave flying 1 hour 27 minutes, release altitude ft, max altitude ft, Front Royal I went out to the field on one of our ad-hoc winter soaring days with the expectation of finding good wave. And good wave we found. We released at ft in decent lift and made it up to about ft in about 25 minutes. Then we made a try for the next harmonic up the wave which should be stronger wave gets stronger as you get closer to the source, which in this case was somewhere in the Appalachians miles to the West but inexplicably the next one was extremely weak.

We headed back to the original one with a couple of thousand feet lost, and stuck gliders bitcoin reviews it until we hit ft, then headed back.

On the way back my gliders bitcoin reviews taught me some fun zero-gee maneuvers and we did some training maneuvers before I brought it in to land. March 22, - Prep flights 30 minutes total, Front Royal Before taking the checkride to get a glider pilot license, it's legally required to take three prep flights with gliders bitcoin reviews instructor beforehand.

We went up and went through all of the maneuvers I'll be required to gliders bitcoin reviews to the examiner, and on my second flight I also got a simulated rope break despite the fact that it was very windy with strong gusts. The conditions made the takeoffs and landings more exciting than I generally like but overall things went fine and I'm good to go. March 25, - Most complicated landing to date 6 minutes, Front Royal I went up with my instructor to do a little slack rope practice.

There were also a lot of people out to fly and the airport was a very busy place. When we got to about ft, bang! My instructor had pulled a rope break on me at a high altitude.

This gets interesting because there are really a lot of options available for landing. I turned back toward the airport and set up for a left-hand pattern instead of our usual right gliders bitcoin reviews.

As I was in the pattern I looked over the airport and saw that it gliders bitcoin reviews a busy place indeed. The runway was blocked by a glider. The taxiway, a useful alternate landing place, was blocked by another glider. I set up to land on the grass at the other end of the airport by turning early and staying relatively high.

About when I turned final, the glider on the runway moved, gliders bitcoin reviews it up for me. I immediately put the spoilers all the way out and the glider dropped like a rock right for the very beginning edge of the runway.

We touched down on the numbers and I had the glider stopped within a couple hundred feet. This flight made me truly realize just how many options a landing glider has and how flexible it can be when it's needed. April 7, - Turbulence and ice 29 minutes, release altitude ft, max altitude ft, Front Royal Two days earlier, a guy in Pennsylvania made a mile flight along the Appalachians, from Gliders bitcoin reviews to Knoxville and back.

There was evidence of wave all over the sky over Washington. The weather had persisted and so I was hoping to get some nice wave. Unfortunately it was not to be. Conditions had changed and while the winds were still strong and from the right direction, there was no wave in sight. The day was extremely turbulent. Gliders bitcoin reviews took all of my attention to follow the tow plane, which dropped me off in some decent lift.

I rode this up a while, then searched out something stronger. Closer to the mountains I found some very good spots that were at least feet per minute up, but I couldn't stay in them gliders bitcoin reviews. Despite all this I managed to ride up to ft, and this was about when my canopy fogged over. It was so cold at altitude that the water vapor in my breath was condensing onto the canopy and freezing. I could still see outside but it was getting harder.

The strong turbulence which followed me all the way up combined with the fog was starting to make me a little gliders bitcoin reviews, and I decided to make a quick descent. Sometime during my very fast pattern later calculated at 90mph ground speed for the downwind leg, as compared to 55mph on a calm day the fog went away and I made an entirely decent landing despite the conditions.

For a more thorough telling of this flight, read Gliders: April 19, - Checkride 24 minutes total, Front Royal Weather, tow pilot, and examiner finally all came together in one spot and I took my practical exam for private pilot. It was easier than expected and everything went just fine.

After two short flights, one rope break, an about an hour gliders bitcoin reviews a half of discussion with the examiner, I'm now official. June 10, - First cross country 1 hour 42 minutes, release altitude ft, max altitude ft, from Front Royal to New Market, VA, I took off in late morning with the sky promising lift. This promise was almost broken as my first prospect for a thermal was a dud, and my second prospect was weak and put me gliders bitcoin reviews and very distant from the airport.

I fought the thermal while practically skimming the treetops of the Massanutten, and finally gliders bitcoin reviews a few hundred feet just as high cirrus moved in and threatened to shut everything down. I headed for the next best cloud and sunlight, which took me south, farther away from the airport. After this first close call everything worked out nicely, and I hit great thermals about once a mile all gliders bitcoin reviews way down the ridge to New Market.

I gliders bitcoin reviews around the local area a bit, circled over the airport, landed on the runway and taxied right up to the ramp with two gliders bitcoin reviews staring at me as I parked in front of them. To see the approximate route of this trip, look it up on Google Maps. You can also see the trace of this flight in Google Earth. June 20, - Ridge rocket 1 hour 30 minutes, release altitude ft, max altitude ft, from Front Royal to Keezletown, VA, My first attempt had me in the air for about fifteen minutes before I had to land, as the winds broke up the thermals and made them too hard to work.

A relight put me back in the air, three thousand feet above the city of Front Royal where a thermal quickly gave me better than a thousand feet more. From there I battled my way upwind towards the North end of the Massanutten ridge. All of the gliders bitcoin reviews after the first one were weak and difficult, but they helped a little. Arriving on the ridge with little altitude to spare, I was picking out fields to use in case it didn't work out. Very quickly it did work out, in spectacular fashion, and I found myself on a rocket south.

The lift was so good I was able to push the glider gliders bitcoin reviews to 95 MPH in places without losing altitude. In short order I reached the South end of the ridge just East of Harrisonburg, 45 miles away.