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| From | Knute Johnson <knute2022@585ranch.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Are there any recommended Java books? |
| Date | 2022-05-19 20:29 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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T92 Mason, Texas. I think there is an active club near Boerne, Texas about 60 miles south of here. I don't know if he has a rating or not. I have a glider CFI but it has been a lot of years since I instructed in gliders. The only time I launched from a winch was in the late 80s when we were in London on a trip and went out to the London Gliding Club. It was a cold, windy and overcast day so there wasn't much soaring, a little ridge lift though. We used to do a lot of auto tows in California, both from the airport gliding school where I worked and off of a dry lake in the desert. Those were fun days! I've got about 400 hours in gliders but almost all of it was before 1980. The economics of a gliding school using aero tow is probably never going to work again. Auto tow requires at least a mile or more of tow to be effective. The dry lake was perfect but not conducive to a commercial operation. A private airport with a winch would be the hot setup. knute... On 5/19/22 15:11, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2022 14:51:44 -0500, Knute Johnson wrote: > >> I've got a friend talking about getting a glider and he's got a wife and >> a Maule that could tow it :-). We'll see. The local airport would be >> perfect for soaring. There is almost no traffic. We are always >> surprised when we see an airplane on the ramp. >> > Where is your local airport? > > Where would he go to get his glider rating? From the comments in > rec.aviation.soaring that can be a real issue in some parts. I'm well-off > here as there are at least two gliding clubs within reasonable gliding > range and both offer winch launches as well as aero towing. I love > winching: its fun, quick (35 secs from start to 1400ft), and a lot cheaper > than an aero tow. > > >
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Are there any recommended Java books? Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2022-05-19 15:08 +0000
Re: Are there any recommended Java books? Knute Johnson <knute2022@585ranch.com> - 2022-05-19 12:42 -0500
Re: Are there any recommended Java books? Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2022-05-19 19:10 +0000
Re: Are there any recommended Java books? Knute Johnson <knute2022@585ranch.com> - 2022-05-19 14:51 -0500
Re: Are there any recommended Java books? Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2022-05-19 20:11 +0000
Re: Are there any recommended Java books? Knute Johnson <knute2022@585ranch.com> - 2022-05-19 20:29 -0500
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