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To give you a little background on my flying experience, I
received my Hang 2 in June of this year after completing my primary training at
Blue Sky with Steve Wendt. The foundation of Steve’s training program is scooter
towing and nobody does it better than Steve IMHO. Steve starts out with his 50cc
scooter that works amazingly well. This scooter will give you your first flights
up to 200’. Once you are ready, Steve will graduate you to the mega winch (a
scooter tow set-up built with a 4-wheeler), this rig will give you flights from
400-600’. When the conditions are right, you will be on the truck towing from
900-1200’. For those of you who have never truck towed, it is a great way to get
in the air (I can only speak for towing with Blue Sky). Basically once you are
given the signal to release from the truck, you will activate the release from
the truck with your finger and you are off. For the first 100’ or so you will
fly with a little extra speed, beyond that, you will slow to a little faster
than trim. During the first 2/3rds of the tow, the winch pressure will be
lighter and paying out line. Around the last third of the tow, you will feel the
winch pressure tighten up. At this point I fly faster and listen to the vario
really sing. Just before the truck gets to the end of the road, you pull in a
little speed and release from the tow line. When towing mid-day behind the
truck, you will get bounced around as you would expect, but it is really a
pretty easy process. If the wind is cross such that it pushes you to the
downwind side of the truck, you simply keep the glider pointed at the truck for
the duration of the tow. I find truck towing to be fun and a great way to log
lots of approach and landing practice on light days.

I think it is also worth noting that I did do some tandems at Wallaby early in
my training, while on vacation in Florida.

After getting my H2, I picked up my foot launch rating in Ellenville after
demonstrating strong competent foot launches for a morning on the training hill.
This wasn’t my first foot launching experience, as my first foot launches were
actually in the KHK HG Spectacular, all strong and uneventful. Regardless of
what anyone has to say on the subject, correctly taught scooter launches are
foot launches. All I had to do when I got to the hill and then the mountains was
to adjust my AoA. At most, you shouldn’t need more than a day of instruction on
the training hill to make the transition from ST to FL. If you disagree with
this, let’s debate it in another thread. At Blue Sky (my home site basically) we
also have a Dragonfly and do some Ating. Having logged around 70 truck tows
since getting my H2, I have been excited to get my AT rating and open the door
to additional flying opportunities. After surveying my options of places to
train, I figured it would be fun to escape the rapidly cooling air of northern
Virginia and do my AT training at Quest Air in Groveland, Florida. I decided the
trip to Florida would also be a great time to spend a little quality time with
my 13 year old son.

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