![]() Pushing forward on the hang glider’s control bar makes you go up. In an airplane pushing forward on the stick makes you go down. I warned him about how much more difficult a student I might be based on every possible control being backwards. “Sure!” I said, and let the training begin. Not sure of the start date but a friend of mine, Harry Rosset, asked me if I wanted to go in with him on a Cosmos Soaring Trike. Totals: 9 FL hill flights, 0.6 hours, 2 flying days, 2 sites. And I knew that a normal glider would take much better reactions.Ĥ FL hill flights, 0.1 hours, WW Condor, San Diego Training Hill I don’t remember the details of whether or not I landed on my feet but I do remember it seemed surprisingly easy at those speeds. I did probably 4 runs down the mountain but that glider was so big it felt like cheating. The year the Wills Wing Condor came out (may not have been 2004) he got a hold of one and gave a couple of us an evening ground session. Before paragliding, though, before I knew him, he was also an advanced hang glider pilot and continued to teach and write for the USHGA magazine. He showed me what was possible if you could really master kiting. 2004 With Alan ChuculateĪlan was a paragliding mentor mostly by example. So I chalked it up as a cool mark on life and moved on.ĥ foot launch (FL) hill flights, 1 Aerotow (AT) launch, 0.5 hours. It felt like a lark because actually learning the sport was too far out of the way. I remember him because several years later, when I went to learn hang glider trikes, he was the guy who soloed me. I don’t remember the hill instructor’s name but I do the tandem pilot - Jeff Neilson. That sounded cool so we flew my Cessna 150 up to Whitewater, WI where we did a half-day of hill flights and one aerotow. ![]() It was apparently September, 1998 - I just found the pictures! John Gijsen, a fellow captain from Midway Connection (who had gone to Air Wisconsin) asked if I’d join him for a one-day introductory hang gliding lesson. I asked John Heiney about this and he confirmed that our bunny hill runs count. Even though some of these “flights”, namely the ones in San Diego, only got me airborne going into the flare. In 2014, with aviation career fully engaged, I decided it was time to try “the other page”.įor the purpose of this log, a hang glider flight starts from the beginning of the run/roll to coming to a stop after getting airborne. My parents forbade the hang gliding but let me pursue sailplanes in what became a long aviation affair. ![]() I went nuts thinking that I could actually fly at this age. My brother brought home a book showing a hang glider on one page and a sailplane on the next. My first exposure to hang gliding was at 13 years old. This is also as my official hang glider logbook since I’ll lose the paper one anyway. ![]()
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