[simpits-tech] This is too cool...

[Brian West]

Hi,
    Interesting stuff, the idea now of lofting 16 yr olds into the air with only a sketchy idea of what to expect seems a bit much.
I got my license at Weston on the Green, near Oxford. The next year I did a soaring course at Cheddar in the Mendips, but nothing more until I got into hang gliding some time later. Probably all a lot warmer than Lossiemouth.

Regards, Brian West.


    -----Original Message-----
    From: RickInNoCal at aol.com <RickInNoCal at aol.com>
    To: simpits-tech at simpits.org <simpits-tech at simpits.org>
    Date: Sunday, March 28, 2004 8:56 PM
    Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] This is too cool...
    
    
    In a message dated 3/28/04 7:20:40 AM Pacific Standard Time, bcw at palma.infotelecom.es writes:
    
    
        Yes, I got my Gliding License on those later on, good fun.  I remembered what the machine I described was called, it was a Dagling but I don't know who built them.
    
    
    The Dagling was also a Slingsby - it was also known as the T-3. By the time I started lessons, (around 1970) the UK military no longer allowed primary flight instruction in single seaters :-(    Everyone had to start dual and progress to solo flight like we do today, so the T-21 and T-31 were the main first trainers. 
    
    My father had over 50 hours in his book before his first ever dual flight - and that was for aerobatic training !
    
    Richard 
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