"I would say most of the smoking holes in the ground were made by HTL machines"
Unfortunately Bones these "smokin holes" usually involved the loss of someones life. I'm sure you didn't mean it to sound as insensitive as I took it:wink:, having personally know gyro pilots who have lost their life- ( I think you would also as the gyro community is fairly small.)
Have seen a lot of your activity on the asra forum and you appear to be a well informed and level headed member
of the gyro scene and I look forward to meeting you at some stage. As I said in a previous post on this topic, I have been out of the scene for quite a while and are using these forums as part of my re-education and find the thrust line debate to be very interesting. I consider my early gyro learning to have been 1st class being fortunate to have been around some of the masters( in my opinion) twenty odd years ago and to have seen the beginning of powered two seat training close up.
As said I am looking forward to meeting you (and others) at some stage and catching up with some old mates and once again enjoying the pleasure of flying these wonderful machines.
Simon McClure.