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Sailplane and Gliding - Back in the day when people used typewriters
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<blockquote data-quote="archive10" data-source="post: 942334"><p>That spirit is still well alive.</p><p></p><p>Back in the 90s, I personally witnessed a paragliding instructor on the top of a hill in southern Poland telling a (foreign) trainee pilot "oke... noh emergancy brejks, GOH!!" and he pushed the guy forward - the wing came up - he took off and glided down to the bottom of the hill - and landed safely.</p><p></p><p>A short while later at the bottom of the hill, I got to ask the trainee pilot if they had been teaching something about emergency braking, or whether that was just some last minute advice given by the instructor in addition to the normal curriculum.</p><p></p><p>The guy replied "what do you mean normal curriculum? I only met this guy this very morning - that was the first thing he ever said to me apart from "hello"!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="archive10, post: 942334"] That spirit is still well alive. Back in the 90s, I personally witnessed a paragliding instructor on the top of a hill in southern Poland telling a (foreign) trainee pilot "oke... noh emergancy brejks, GOH!!" and he pushed the guy forward - the wing came up - he took off and glided down to the bottom of the hill - and landed safely. A short while later at the bottom of the hill, I got to ask the trainee pilot if they had been teaching something about emergency braking, or whether that was just some last minute advice given by the instructor in addition to the normal curriculum. The guy replied "what do you mean normal curriculum? I only met this guy this very morning - that was the first thing he ever said to me apart from "hello"! [/QUOTE]
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