Sorry it does not make sense.
1. It makes sense NOW.
2. And it made enough sense that Zack understood what you were saying so it was NOT indecipherable.
3. But I didn't understand what you were saying and locked into an assumption about what I THOUGHT you were saying.
4. And locking into assumptions is one of the biggest killers in this sport and we're ALL vulnerable to doing it.
5. For example... I locked into an assumption that the people running towing had a fucking clue what they were talking about, and as a partial consequence, got into a real dangerous situation on my very first flight at Ridgely on their very first day of operation.
I figured you would have have something more to say about barefoot foot landings especially at an airport when the glider had wheels.
Oh.
Not really.
- Contrary to popular belief, I'm not rabidly opposed to ALL foot landings in ALL circumstances.
-- There are lotsa circumstances when the risk associated with a foot landing is about the same as it is for checking your e-mail.
-- There are lotsa circumstances when a foot landing is so brain dead easy it would be completely stupid to come down any other way.
- While I'll happily take any shot at Davis I can get I don't have any problem with what he's doing on those two landings.
-- Although he has no chance in hell of ever becoming a pilot (as you can easily confirm just by looking at what he's got coming off his shoulders) he's a highly skilled and experienced flyer and in excellent control of those two landings - but no better or worse than a (similarly handicapped) solid Hang One could do.
-- He's on a light (and probably lightly loaded) glider commonly used as a first day trainer.
-- The air's pretty dead so there aren't gonna be any surprises.
-- He has good wheels to which he can bail if he needs to.
- Barefoot...
-- Foot landing a glider - as far as the feet are concerned - involves at most running a very short bit with your effective weight starting at zilch and increasing to normal plus sixty to a hundred pounds. That's about as big a fucking deal as walking a few steps barefoot with a kid on your shoulders.
-- We humans:
--- play soccer and run marathons barefoot.
--- run down Greater Kudu in the Kalahari barefoot.
Note that Davis catches a bit of flak for landing a Falcon barefoot in the grass at an airport without consequence but when Jonathan, loaded for XC and wearing shoes, lands a T2 in a narrow dry riverbed with large rocks strewn all over the place and...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JgbHEye4Zk
A One-Footed Landing
NMERider - 2010/08/29
dead
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16-1501
...breaks a toe, nobody in this idiot testosterone poisoned culture thinks THAT's the tiniest bit stupid. 'Cause hang gliders just wouldn't be hang gliders if you didn't land them in narrow dry riverbeds with large rocks strewn all over the place as often as possible - they'd be namby-pamby sailplanes.
And, of course, immediately after you've broken the toe and are landing on putting greens you CONTINUE doing foot landings - the one foot flavor - to keep your narrow dry riverbed with large rocks strewn all over the place landings as keenly honed as they were before and are roundly applauded for doing so.
No apologies needed.
Apologies - or at least acknowledgments of which way is actually up - are ALWAYS needed if we are to make any progress in reaching consensuses about which way is up.
For example...
http://www.chgpa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2467
weak links
Jim Rooney - 2007/07/22 22:30:28 UTC
Hahahahahahahahaha
Oh that's just rich!
Riiiiiight... it's my attention span at issue here....
and I'm the one that's arrogant!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA
No, I'm not being nice. No, I do not feel the need to be nice. You're trying to convince people to be less safe. I don't want to be on the other end of the rope when someone listening to this drivel smashes in.
I've heard it a million times before from comp pilots insisting on towing with even doubled up weaklinks (some want no weaklink). I tell them the same thing I'm telling you... suck it up. You're not the only one on the line. I didn't ask to be a test pilot. I can live with your inconvenience.
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24846
Is this a joke ?
Davis Straub - 2011/08/26 14:04:52
We had six weaklink breaks in a row at Zapata this year.
http://www.chgpa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3600
Weak link question
Tad Eareckson - 2008/11/24 06:16:08 UTC
Would someone - Brian, Janni, Lauren, ANYONE - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE explain to me how the tug's ass is endangered by a double loop ONLY when it's on a SOLO glider but not at all when it's on a TANDEM?
You will NEVER get a straight answer to that question from any of the total fucking morons of the Sacred Order of Dragonfly Drivers - from Bobby to Rooney - 'cause none of those cowardly shits has ever been wrong about ANYTHING.
Nobody's ever wrong about anything in this sport so everything's just a matter of opinion - permanently. And the opinions which are best at winning the popularity contests are virtually always the most clueless ones.
Which reminds me...
Still haven't gotten an answer to my question.