One4All4Ever said:

Still....

Yes! A glider is not as dangerous as a regular plane. It is built and designed to "glide". The wind and air current are what keep you up in the air. Once you are up you can stay up for a long time or you have the capability to come down when you want. Of course if it is bad weather you wouldn't go up in the first place.

The "runway" I landed on was a grass strip.

Yes, you always have a plan for emergencies. Take offs are not hard since you have the tow plane providing all the muscle so to speak. All you have to do is keep is straight and level.

The landings I guess are a bit trickier, but that is true for jets as well. But, still they are not too difficult. You are able to see in the picture how close the wings are to the ground. You don't have much leeway to tip one way or the other. So, even if your landing is a little uneven it's no biggie.


Yes, the quiet is amazing. Floating above the earth and all of the chaos of day to day living is heavenly.

hokie1 said:

Thanks for all the info! It seems like a really cool thing to try. I'll put it on my to do list somewhere after ostrich riding.

I didn't even notice that the wings had wheels on them by the way. I'm sure that facilitates landing a whole lot.

retina said:

Your welcome. You'd rather ride an ostrich than fly a plane.

If that bird chomps your you know what off then I won't have any sympathy for you.

hokie1 said:

How did my penis enter this discussion?
Or are you talking about my clothes? In that case I think you would be too busy taking yours off too to think about sympathy.

1. My choir teacher thinks I'm too fat to wear shorts?
2. I'm getting new glasses soon and they are so cute!
3. My choir teacher thinks I care what she thinks

ZombieKitten said:

you got any bosses
I thought you worked @ home ..

or do the kids run upto daddy when he comes home
"daddy, mommy orged all day today ... and WE'RE HUNGRY !!!!!"

1. I officially hate spring. Sure, the warmth is nice but not at the cost of having itchy, red eyes, itchy, running nose, sneezing 3121 times in a row, and my asthma playing up.

2. There's a novelty hit I really like but I'm way too ashamed to say what it is here

3. I miss Theodore

purplesweat said:

did you see the eclpise last night?

I am starting to get hayfever too now I don't like how windy spring always is

ZombieKitten said:

Yeah, I saw it, it was weird! But kinda cool being "under the cherry moon"

purplesweat said:

I didn't know it was going to go red like that!!!!

ZombieKitten said:

Apparently it's because the sky is blue..the two colours or whatever

My mum was telling me about an eclipse that happened during the day when she was kid. It went completely dark at about noon...now that is FREAKY

purplesweat said:

I read last night that if an astronaut was on the moon looking at the earth during last night's eclipse, there would be a red ring around the earth - because they would see all the earth's sunsets and sunrises simultaneously! Apparently all the blue and green light is absorbed by the earth's atmosphere on the way past the earth or something

A solar eclipse I think I remember one too, except it was already a really overcast day.

ZombieKitten said:

All the sunsets and sunrises similtaneously?! How freakin' fast are we moving!?

Are ya sure it wasn't the eclipse making it overcast?

purplesweat said:

all the sunsets and sunrises that are happening at THAT MOMENT sorry

it was a thunderstormy day, so we couldn't tell if it was the eclipse or not it just got a bit darker than it already was.

cankles oh boy, I learned that word on the org too

ZombieKitten said:

What means it?

purplesweat said:

Cankle n. A fusion of the words “calf” and “ankle,” a cankle is a very thick ankle - one which appears to be a continuation of the calf itself.

ZombieKitten said:

Wow, you learn something new every day.

I dont have those

purplesweat said:

I don't either, I have the opposite, where the scrawniness of my ankles extend to up my knees
combined with my thighs, I have what has been described by less tactful people as "chicken-legs"

ZombieKitten said:

Some people are so hurtful.

I have weird feet and toes, they're too...big

purplesweat said:

see, nobody is perfect!

MsMisha319 said:

I do well whenever I can catch them but I watch, Cribs, Engaged and Underage, Newport Harbor and Real World

1. When I was about 16 I had a really unconsciously traumatizing event happen on the U of M campus.2. I really love love love kittens
3. I hated school but now love learning