Tuck,

Wise to start on low rates. You can ALWAYS go to high rates after the first flights--or in the middle of them, but take off and land on low rates until you COMMAND the bird. If the bird commands YOU, you're in for a crash. Why begin THAT way?

There is a point in time, with this relationship among the pilot, the bird, and the wind, when the FINGERS do the thinking. The MIND disappears, and you have this incredible RELATIONSHIP, indefinable, which feeds the passion of flying.

It's just that simple-----and that complex.

I flew in southern Michigan yesterday. Home now. Thank you, Mike Lucier and Weak Signals, Toledo, Ohio.

Preflight well and fly long.

Jack