Are there any other soarers here?

HPSL

HPSL

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I just signed up here, and am Colorado, west of the Front Range based. I grew tired of the so-called "soaring" website I used to frequent with it's low-informaton, anti-American, parrots and lemmings that i used to frequent.

I appreciate my European glass feather weight 35:1 steed* with it's simple two-stroke self-launcher. Unlike before. I can soar on weekday afternoons. Not requiring a winch operator or tow pilot.

I appreciate P-FLARM, RASP, BLIPMAPs, and SuperNetto. But, i also live in an area with spotty 5G and . . . s . . . l . . . o . . . w . . . 3G coverage. My hobby is soaring not postong text about soaring.

*Not that i wouldn't love to try out one of those 8x as expensive, 2x as heavy, decades newer, 50:1 HPSLs with the four-cycle Wankel engines. I console myself by thinking of all of those marginal lift days.
 
Welcome aboard. There are a lot of different kinds of pilots, and opinions here.

Congratulations for being self launch.
 
HPSL said:
I just signed up here, and am Colorado, west of the Front Range based. I grew tired of the so-called "soaring" website I used to frequent with it's low-informaton, anti-American, parrots and lemmings that i used to frequent.

I appreciate my European glass feather weight 35:1 steed* with it's simple two-stroke self-launcher. Unlike before. I can soar on weekday afternoons. Not requiring a winch operator or tow pilot.

I appreciate P-FLARM, RASP, BLIPMAPs, and SuperNetto. But, i also live in an area with spotty 5G and . . . s . . . l . . . o . . . w . . . 3G coverage. My hobby is soaring not postong text about soaring.

*Not that i wouldn't love to try out one of those 8x as expensive, 2x as heavy, decades newer, 50:1 HPSLs with the four-cycle Wankel engines. I console myself by thinking of all of those marginal lift days.
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There are some here. I’ve done it but am not active. Where is that ‘sculpture’ in your Avatar?
 
When others disagreed with me at a website I used to frequent, they labeled me a troll. So I embraced that image. My avatar is my (Norwegian) namesake, Isak. A15 foot tall troll in Breckenridge Colorado created out of recycled wood by artist Thomas Dambo.

(Norweigian Trolls being the equivalent of Kokopeli, the mischief maker.)
 
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