ralph. Good on you.
I am amazed more people do not go and do as you did in a two seater with an instructor. Fixed wing gliding is not quiet and serene, but it is utterly magnificent. When I started doing stick and rudder in a glider I was instantly totally hooked, as gliders provide a profoundly visceral connection way beyond anything I later felt piloting either a Cessna prop plane or hang gliding.
Fixed wing gliders bring you stunningly close to “being a bird”, or at least a flying squirrel.
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