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I so Want that Feeling, and What a Feeling it is!

Postby Chris McKeon » Sun Mar 31, 2024 3:15 pm

Ducks all in a Row, Quack, Quack,

It is finally after My spending far too much Time in this as John says: "This Gravity Secured Penitentiary that We all exist in. Well, I have been putting My Ducks in a Row, so as to enable Me to make a Jailbreak.
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Re: I so Want that Feeling, and What a Feeling it is!

Postby Chris McKeon » Sat Mar 29, 2025 10:33 am

Yes, For Heck Yea, what a feeling that Free-Flight is. I will get to enjoying Free-Flight again. I just really do worry that I will have lost so much of My Memory Due to due to My TBI, I worry I will be so Forgetful that I will not remember to Pre-Flight My Predator. Or will I actually Fly XC? No that is doubtful, Flying XC and becoming lost when Flying Cross Country. Please take note: I have gotten Lost before when Flying XC. I cannot blame My having experienced a TBI on that Flying Follie where I Flew XC and ended up in Nevada. Yes this wayward Predator Pilot should of had a GPS with Myself on that Flight. Yes, I have My Limitations, If I am lucking enough, Due to the Day and the site I might be Ridge Soaring. The day, and where I will be Flying Then after Flying for a couple Hours, I will have to land due to My shortcomings as a Pilot. I will fail to work a Thermal for Lift. Then I will have to land. I do worry that during the landing phase of My Flight. I might find it that I no longer remember how to Whack.

Brain Damage is a Bitch.
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Re: I so Want that Feeling, and What a Feeling it is!

Postby Chris McKeon » Sat Mar 29, 2025 12:13 pm

This morning, I went outside. WE have a Galvanized tube deal that is covered with a Tarp. Also, the Tarp goes down the sides, we can put stuff in it to keep them out of the Rain. Well, I have started Driving Golf Balls into one of the Sides. So, I am able to work on My Swing using My Driver.

It is so col for Me to be able to work on My ability to drive a Golf Ball at Home. Heck, for that Matter, it is just Great that I am able to work on My Swing, Just to be able to stand and Swing My Driver is pretty darn Cool!
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Re: I so Want that Feeling, and What a Feeling it is!

Postby Chris McKeon » Sat Mar 29, 2025 3:33 pm

Oh Yes what a Great Feeling it is for having gotten so low that You can pick out individual Birds while they sit upon limbs on a Tree. I have been in that situation Myself. I would be Flying My predator using the lightest of Touch. Then I feel the indication that there was a Thermal to My say My right. i would bank so as to initiate a right turn. Then I would soon be going around and around, while at the same Time, i would begin to Climb, back up to Cloud Bae.

I think all the time just how different my predator will Climb now that I weigh a 100 Pounds less than i did 15 Years ago.

Thanks for the Great Glider John;
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Re: I so Want that Feeling, and What a Feeling it is!

Postby Chris McKeon » Sat Apr 05, 2025 3:08 pm

FLYING AND RADIO QUESTIONS:

OK I have a couple of Questions that I want to propose to this Rather Large group of Dedicated Free-Flight Pilots. One Question does not fall under the category of: {Flying}. But maybe someone can tell Me why My radio that sits upon My Nightstand fails to function after the Sun goes Down? The radio does not totally cease to Function. But to one degree or another. The radio has heavy amounts f Static. In the Morning after the Sun rises, the radio begins to produce Clear sound. Then in the Evening, once again My Radio has a serious amount of Static.

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What I want to know is: Why does My radio go through this each Day and night. Does anyone have an answer for this Delema of reoccurring Radio Static that My Radio is experiencing?

FLYING THOUGHT:

Also, I never want to Whack My Predator Ever! What kind of work, effort could I do in Order to achieve My Gals of Never Sinking out, and Never Whacking My Predator>?
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Re: I so Want that Feeling, and What a Feeling it is!

Postby Chris McKeon » Thu Apr 17, 2025 8:28 am

OK, I have indeed been in a couple of booming Thermals in My Ten-year as a HG Pilot. I remember once I was going straight up to Cloud base over on the East Sideof the Sierras. I encountered a mean rush of lift as I approached Cloud-Base. I remember thinking Prior to My bailing out to the edge of the Thermal. I was concerned about being Whitted-Out as this Thermal had My Vario singing. Anyways I bailed out, and that was that.

How about all of You?
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Re: I so Want that Feeling, and What a Feeling it is!

Postby Chris McKeon » Sat Apr 19, 2025 1:46 pm

I was watching the attached Video of Tony Hawk. I was thinking that "If and When" I leave the Ground Flying a HG After My last Flight Fifteen Years ago. Heck, I did experience a Near-Deth that Day. But somehow, I have not fulfilled My Kaiser Doctors Prognosis. No M, Mentally I am in no shape or Form, am I a Vegetable. Also, not only do I walk, but I can Jog some. This experience: My having severally Pounded so Hard. My resurrection. My Trek towards being One Hundred Percent recovered. I like to think about shooting for a Hundred Percent Recovery, or More than a Hundred Percent recovered. Yes, I like the way it Sounds, One Hundred Percent or More.

So I think that being that it is 4:30 PM. here on Saturday April 19th. 2025. It is time for Me to get down on My Matt and do the Stretching exercises that I do. Then I will work on doing some Sit - Ups.

Next Month, I want to Finally get Myself down South. Yea it will be cool to actually be able to Meet a couple of You HG Pilots Face to Face. Bob I truly do believe that This year might just be the Year when I will Finally be The Year when I will finally make it get Myself down to Dockweiler for the Otto Lilienthal Meet.




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