AirTalk.org Aviation discussions newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Flying a sailplane is like... Goto page 1, 2  Next          AirTalk.org Forum Index -> Sailplanes View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Roger Worden Guest Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 12:43 am    Post subject: Flying a sailplane is like... Seen on a trailer: Flying an airplane is like drinking champagne Flying an ultralight is like drinking moonshine with a kick So... what do you think flying a sailplane is like drinking? Back to top MC Guest Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:11 am    Post subject: Re: Flying a sailplane is like... Cool Clear Water. "Roger Worden" <rworden (AT) aol (DOT) com> wrote Quote: Seen on a trailer: Flying an airplane is like drinking champagne Flying an ultralight is like drinking moonshine with a kick So... what do you think flying a sailplane is like drinking? Back to top Stefan Guest Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 11:22 am    Post subject: Re: Flying a sailplane is like... Roger Worden wrote: Quote: So... what do you think flying a sailplane is like drinking? It's like drinking warm water out of a plastic bag with a tube which has a plastic smell. Stefan Back to top J.A.M. Guest Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:18 pm    Post subject: Re: Flying a sailplane is like... Or anything that only gives you more thirst, while satisfying you completly each time. "MC" <Mi-kal (AT) comcast (DOT) net> escribió en el mensaje news:c_idnTEmuO__2O3fRVn-3Q (AT) comcast (DOT) com... Quote: Cool Clear Water. "Roger Worden" <rworden (AT) aol (DOT) com> wrote in message news:1lWbe.1567$Gd7.440 (AT) newssvr21 (DOT) news.prodigy.com... Seen on a trailer: Flying an airplane is like drinking champagne Flying an ultralight is like drinking moonshine with a kick So... what do you think flying a sailplane is like drinking? Back to top Shawn Guest Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 6:25 pm    Post subject: Re: Flying a sailplane is like... Roger Worden wrote: Quote: Seen on a trailer: Flying an airplane is like drinking champagne Champagne gives me hives. Quote: Flying an ultralight is like drinking moonshine with a kick ....and then you go blind. Quote: So... what do you think flying a sailplane is like drinking? Sorry, just don't like this particular simile. I don't find it intoxicating-more the opposite. Addictive yes, intoxicating? No. Shawn Back to top M B Guest Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:02 pm    Post subject: Re: Flying a sailplane is like... ...drinking the finest, purest chilled water from a lush mountain spring on the highest peaks of Tibet. This after taking it from the spring by climbing the mountain and meditating with those monks. Hmmm...maybe it ain't poetry, but at least I tried. I'm not as eloquent as that dancing on clouds guy... :) At 19:00 28 April 2005, Shawn wrote: Quote: Roger Worden wrote: Seen on a trailer: Flying an airplane is like drinking champagne Champagne gives me hives. Flying an ultralight is like drinking moonshine with a kick ....and then you go blind. So... what do you think flying a sailplane is like drinking? Sorry, just don't like this particular simile. I don't find it intoxicating-more the opposite. Addictive yes, intoxicating? No. Shawn Mark J. Boyd Back to top Roger Worden Guest Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 4:20 am    Post subject: Re: Flying a sailplane is like... .... communion wine? Not intoxicating but inspiring. "M B" <REMOVE_TO_REPLY.mjboyd (AT) ucsc (DOT) edu> wrote Quote: ..drinking the finest, purest chilled water from a lush mountain spring on the highest peaks of Tibet. This after taking it from the spring by climbing the mountain and meditating with those monks. Hmmm...maybe it ain't poetry, but at least I tried. I'm not as eloquent as that dancing on clouds guy... :) At 19:00 28 April 2005, Shawn wrote: Roger Worden wrote: Seen on a trailer: Flying an airplane is like drinking champagne Champagne gives me hives. Flying an ultralight is like drinking moonshine with a kick ....and then you go blind. So... what do you think flying a sailplane is like drinking? Sorry, just don't like this particular simile. I don't find it intoxicating-more the opposite. Addictive yes, intoxicating? No. Shawn Mark J. Boyd Back to top Jack Guest Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 4:43 am    Post subject: Re: Flying a sailplane is like... Roger Worden wrote: Quote: ... communion wine? Not intoxicating but inspiring. I think you've got it. Jack Back to top J.A.M. Guest Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 11:55 am    Post subject: Re: Flying a sailplane is like... Try drinking enough communion wine. Hangover will be just great. Might inspire you a glorious headache. "Roger Worden" <rworden (AT) aol (DOT) com> escribió en el mensaje news:ICice.2582$zu.1350 (AT) newssvr13 (DOT) news.prodigy.com... Quote: ... communion wine? Not intoxicating but inspiring. Back to top Shawn Guest Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 6:05 pm    Post subject: Re: Flying a sailplane is like... Jack wrote: Quote: Roger Worden wrote: ... communion wine? Not intoxicating but inspiring. I think you've got it. OMG! Not the communion wine I've had! Shawn Back to top Metalman Guest Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 7:37 pm    Post subject: Re: Flying a sailplane is like... Flying a sailplane is like drinking urine. Roger Worden wrote: Quote: Seen on a trailer: Flying an airplane is like drinking champagne Flying an ultralight is like drinking moonshine with a kick So... what do you think flying a sailplane is like drinking? Back to top nafod40 Guest Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 8:15 pm    Post subject: Re: Flying a sailplane is like... Metalman wrote: Quote: Flying a sailplane is like drinking urine. Or Coors, which turns to urine directly in your mouth. Back to top hellman@stanford.edu Guest Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 2:43 am    Post subject: Re: Flying a sailplane is like... Funny Roger (the first message in this thread) should ask. I just wrote something on this for a friend. The response from the group will be interesting (I'm braced for the corrections, so try to remember, this was supposed to be a right brain description, not a totally accurate scientific one). So here it is: Why does soaring draw us so powerfully that we will spend hours preparing for a flight, sit for hours more in a cockpit that makes Economy Class seating seem cavernous, and come home ecstatic from the experience? Why, when we catch a glimpse of a soaring bird, must we stop whatever we were doing and marvel at the beauty of wings dancing with air currents? When someone asked me these questions - actually she asked how I became involved in soaring, but that is really the same question - I responded that I must have been a hawk in a former life. It isn't that I am a firm believer in reincarnation. It's just that there is no rational explanation for the joy that I derive from soaring, so a totally crazy answer is closest to the truth. There is something mystical about seeing the earth from on high in a glider. Even the Central Valley is beautiful and the Sierras are absolutely awesome. While logic would say that those views should be equally impressive from a power plane, the experience is magnified many times over by being one with the air, dancing with it, using its resistance in the vertical dimension to overcome its resistance in the direction of flight. A thermal transforms what is usually thought of as air resistance into air propulsion. What alchemy! The experience is further enhanced as we approach cloud base. As we fly through wisps of mist that are forming the cloud above us I cannot help but think "This is the closest a person can come to heaven while still on this plane." So the next time someone asks me why I became involved in soaring, maybe I'll answer "To better glimpse the Face of God." Back to top Bill Gribble Guest Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 1:52 pm    Post subject: Re: Flying a sailplane is like... So very well put. Though that said, you suggest there is no "rational explanation" to the question of why you would be so drawn to soaring, whereas I fail to see that the question itself is rational in the first place. Why would you not? It's a continual source of befuddlement to me that anybody could be offered the chance or possibility of soaring flight and be able to just walk away untouched or ask "why would I want to do that?" :) But never mind. My home club is holding an Open Day this coming Sunday, so I'll get ample opportunity to explore this question and proclaim the virtues of our art to a curious public, I guess! -Bill [email]hellman (AT) stanford (DOT) edu[/email] writes Quote: Why does soaring draw us so powerfully that we will spend hours preparing for a flight, sit for hours more in a cockpit that makes Economy Class seating seem cavernous, and come home ecstatic from the experience? Why, when we catch a glimpse of a soaring bird, must we stop whatever we were doing and marvel at the beauty of wings dancing with air currents? When someone asked me these questions - actually she asked how I became involved in soaring, but that is really the same question - I responded that I must have been a hawk in a former life. It isn't that I am a firm believer in reincarnation. It's just that there is no rational explanation for the joy that I derive from soaring, so a totally crazy answer is closest to the truth. There is something mystical about seeing the earth from on high in a glider. Even the Central Valley is beautiful and the Sierras are absolutely awesome. While logic would say that those views should be equally impressive from a power plane, the experience is magnified many times over by being one with the air, dancing with it, using its resistance in the vertical dimension to overcome its resistance in the direction of flight. A thermal transforms what is usually thought of as air resistance into air propulsion. What alchemy! The experience is further enhanced as we approach cloud base. As we fly through wisps of mist that are forming the cloud above us I cannot help but think "This is the closest a person can come to heaven while still on this plane." So the next time someone asks me why I became involved in soaring, maybe I'll answer "To better glimpse the Face of God." -- Bill Gribble http://www.scapegoatsanon.demon.co.uk - Learn from the mistakes of others. - You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself. Back to top Nyal Williams Guest Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 2:38 pm    Post subject: Re: Flying a sailplane is like... Whatzit like drinking? Mother Nature's milk! At 14:30 03 May 2005, Bill Gribble wrote: Quote: So very well put. Though that said, you suggest there is no 'rational explanation' to the question of why you would be so drawn to soaring, whereas I fail to see that the question itself is rational in the first place. Why would you not? It's a continual source of befuddlement to me that anybody could be offered the chance or possibility of soaring flight and be able to just walk away untouched or ask 'why would I want to do that?' :) But never mind. My home club is holding an Open Day this coming Sunday, so I'll get ample opportunity to explore this question and proclaim the virtues of our art to a curious public, I guess! -Bill [email]hellman (AT) stanford (DOT) edu[/email] writes Why does soaring draw us so powerfully that we will spend hours preparing for a flight, sit for hours more in a cockpit that makes Economy Class seating seem cavernous, and come home ecstatic from the experience? Why, when we catch a glimpse of a soaring bird, must we stop whatever we were doing and marvel at the beauty of wings dancing with air currents? When someone asked me these questions - actually she asked how I became involved in soaring, but that is really the same question - I responded that I must have been a hawk in a former life. It isn't that I am a firm believer in reincarnation. It's just that there is no rational explanation for the joy that I derive from soaring, so a totally crazy answer is closest to the truth. There is something mystical about seeing the earth from on high in a glider. Even the Central Valley is beautiful and the Sierras are absolutely awesome. While logic would say that those views should be equally impressive from a power plane, the experience is magnified many times over by being one with the air, dancing with it, using its resistance in the vertical dimension to overcome its resistance in the direction of flight. A thermal transforms what is usually thought of as air resistance into air propulsion. What alchemy! The experience is further enhanced as we approach cloud base. As we fly through wisps of mist that are forming the cloud above us I cannot help but think 'This is the closest a person can come to heaven while still on this plane.' So the next time someone asks me why I became involved in soaring, maybe I'll answer 'To better glimpse the Face of God.' -- Bill Gribble http://www.scapegoatsanon.demon.co.uk - Learn from the mistakes of others. - You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself. 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