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----- Original Message ----- From: "Flying High" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Les Grammer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "exchange" <soaring@airage.com>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 11:35 AM
Subject: [RCSE] 2-meters suck....??? Sure they do, but they do look Cool??!?!? Well some do....
Les and Craig get my vote on 2M flying. THEY MAKE YOU A BETTER TD PILOT for the bigger stuff!!! Too bad you don't see many contest with 2M class these days, just like the standard class that has come and gone... flying the shorter wingspan stuff does sharpen your skills, another reason why I've improved very slightly over the past years. Practice and Practice is still the key as we all know it but you should learn to be some what a "Jack of all trades"... is that the saying??? 2M pilots do need more friends! Hey, you don't have to listen to me, but it would be nice to see more pilots compete in this class. Okay, what is the 2M to get??? Which ever one you feel comfortable flying and feel it will give you an edge! There's still many models out there to fill your needs, I fly an Organic only because it's cool looking, not because it floats like a feather or penetrates in windy conditions or because it lands on a dime! I would never fly a glider that does all that! I fly the ORGANIC just because of it's looks!!! :-)
Friends don't let Friends fly UGLY 2M gliders!!!!
Edgar "the Soaring Junkie"
--- Les Grammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Oh, ow! ow! ow! ow! ow!!!!??!!!
I've sat here on the sidelines for what, 4 years now, watching sporadic attacks on 2-meter. "Just grin and bear it" has been my mantra.
But now, our national champ comes out and says 2-meter's suck?? Ow, oW OW!!!
How many of you got started with a 2-meter? When a new pilot finally shows up at our flying field, more often than not they are flying a 2-meter. They only move on because everyone wants the to look good by max'ing every flight (more easily, as skill requirements to do so with 2-meter are much higher), thus off to open they float.
I find 2-meter great fun! Hot rods of the sky, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound (if there's lift). And yea, as I grow old(er) any my eyes become a problem and reflexes slow, I'll slowly leave 2-m behind and move to a bigger RES (along with open). 2-meter is not for the faint of heart. But I'll always have a soft spot for a good, full-house work-it-across-the-sky hot rod of a 2-meter. I think 2-m;s provide a much better test of your flying skills than open or res planes do. And yea, they suck when there's no lift! But hey, they provide a good separation of the "pilots" from the flyers. It IS easier to fly a bigger plane. That's part of what makes it so interesting. I guess you have to put me into that die-hard 2-meter camp.
This is all said with the utmost respect to Daryl. No attack on his opinion is intended. He is the champ, afterall! But hey, I (and you) don't HAVE to agree with him. Hell, here in Washington, that would imply I'd have to listen to the guidance of governor Gregoire ... no, make that governor Rossi ... no, Gregoire ... oops, no make that Rossi again ... sigh, now Gregoire ... now HUH? (think I'll move to Idaho!)
2-meter friends just need more friends! :-)
-Les Grammer -NWSS (Super V rules!!)
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