Nice to see a fellow pilot -- well, I'm still in the student phase, but I've been doing lots of "glide, grass, gas!" lately, as my instructor likes to say. Sad

Nice to see a fellow pilot -- well, I'm still in the student phase, but I've been doing lots of "glide, grass, gas!" lately, as my instructor likes to say. Sadly, the number of open fields to aim for in the SF Bay Area is pretty small. It's either hillsides, bay, or city. Oh, and a couple of thin dikes you could land on. ("That's why nailing the centerline is so important. Someday you might need to land on something like that dike wall -- and if you nail it, you walk away fine.")