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Ten Commandments

 


1. Put not thy trust in weather prophets, for when the truth is not therein, they shall not accompany thee among thy ancestors.

2. Ignorest thou not thy checklists, for many are the handles, gauges and other demons awaiting to take cruel vengeance upon thee.

3. Thou shall abstain from getting too far out of tow position lest thine eyes lose sight of the tow plane and thy tow pilot will surely depart.

4. Thou shalt cast thine eyes to thy right and also to thy left as thou passeth through the heavens lest thy fellow pilots bring flowers to thy widow(er) and comfort her (him) in other ways.

5. Circle not against thy neighbor, for this shall surely incur the wrath of thy fellow glider pilot and their fury shall be called upon thy head.

6. Thou shalt be ever mindful of thy lift lest there be nothing to sustain then upon the air and thy day be made short.

7. Trust not thine eyes to lead thee through the clouds lest the Archangel Gabriel await thee therein.

8. Thou shalt not trespass into thunderstorms lest the tempest rend the wings from thy chariot and cast thee naked into the firmament

9. Often shalt thou confirm thine airspeed on final lest the earth rise and smite thee.

10. Thou shalt not linger on the active runway lest thou become like unto ground sirloin.

This little gem was taken from the wall at the Eagleville airport.  They got it from a copy of “Soaring Magazine” who copied it from the 1998 issue of “Birdseed Newsletter”, whose editor ripped it off from the Aug/Sept issue of “Final Glide”, whose editor in turn lifted if from the April 1988 issue of “Towline, The Journal of the Seattle Glider Council”. We have  no idea where they got it.