I owe it all to Dan Murphy....Well sort of....(I had to add that otherwise I would not hear the end of it) I owe a lot of cross country flying help to
Mountain Mike.
Anyway after years of making scale 1/4 and 1/3 scale gliders I decided that as I lived 30mins from Minden I should learn to glide.
I started flying at Minden on March the 9th 1997. it was a windy day
with no lift at all. We shot a load of landing patterns in the SZD50-3 Owl.
I was hooked.
When I got back from that lesson something was ticking inside my head. Mainly the thought of "Damn why hadnt I done
this ealier in my life instead of messing around with the toy version". I was determined to get the most out of my flying that I could. I went solo after 20 odd launches and soon graduated to the Grob 102. After
Flying the Grob102 for a number of weekends I really wanted/needed to have my own plane. Rentals was getting exspensive! In May 1997 I spent $800 on tows and rentals, not a good situation. So cap in hand I asked my
local bank man "please sir can I have some money to buy a plane?" To my suprise he said yes.
So I bought my
