>Peter, only -4C in a Canadian winter? I thought you'd be in a T-shirt. Push
>a little negative and warm up. BTW I always pack gloves for x-country in the
>summer - saves stretching the sleeves out of my sweaters.

Naw, I grew up in Victoria ... anything below 10C is cold for me. Not much
negative in the Intermediate, just lots and lots and lots of rolling ;)
There is a beautiful portion in this sequence, one and a half rolls to inverted
then 1/4 to knife edge, then 3/4 back to upright. Very pretty ... well perhaps
not when I fly it ;) I can see its going to take hours of practice to get
the hang of it.

I tell you, its incredibly difficult to fly and read the ARESTI diagrams
at the same time. I don't know how you guys manage it. Everytime I look
down to see whats comming next I get major disoriented when I look back
up.

>Was flying the Unlimited Known a couple of days ago, +7C, started at 1000'
>and never got low. Flew one sequence fine, then tried it on the cross axis
>and got turned around after the rolling 270. Started over and got lost
>again. Re-started a third time and realized that I was getting dumber and
>dumber the longer I stayed up there pulling G's. Landed before I wouldn't
>have been able to find the car in the parking lot. Got warm, got fuzzy.
>Harder to keep the g tolerance up in the winter.

Funny how that works eh. I sure am glad there is a MF where I practice
as they keep an eye out for me for other traffic. If I had to do traffic
lookout, ARESTI reading and keeping that wild pony under control all at
the same time ....

Cheers all,

Peter




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