marcum@fortune.UUCP (12/07/83)
Having never flown a sailplane, I can't comment on that precisely. However, in addition to the standard sorts of 152s, 182RGs, Warriors, etc., I have some experience in a 1943 Taylorcraft L2. Flying the TCraft is quite an education: compared to, eg., a 152, the L2 seems to DEFINE adverse yaw! My "modern plane" skills are much improved because of my L2 experience. In short, what the TCraft experience did for me was to make me far more sensitive to the controls, to rudder inputs, to the value of slipping to a landing (see also this month's AOPA Pilot), to the importance of sound as an airspeed indicator. Alan M. Marcum Fortune Systems, Redwood City, California ...!hplabs!hpda!fortune!rhino!marcum