When I was in flight training in Moses Lake Wa. at Grant County Airport we did 4 touch-and-go's on the same pass in a Beech B-19. Taxied onto runway, push the throttle in, rotate up to about 50', pull throttle, and touch down, push throttle in, do it again. Runway is 13,500' That was some thing I'd never done before.

We fly backwards in the Oklahoma winds. On a good stiff day slow fly into the reported winds and see if you can watch your self move backwards across the ground.

Followed by a FULL Stop landing and take off in a C-150 in 500 feet. Carrier deck winds on a fixed runway are coool!

The coolest thing that I do is get to 10 mistakes high and cut motor and enjoy the silence peace and quite nothing like it , all by your self and the wild blue what a treat.

RC Outlaw,
I enjoyed getting from the 125 F on the valley floor by auto, to the 80 F at the 8000' launch, to the freezing 17,300' max alt I ever reached, some times ascending at nearly 2000' per minute, thinking anxiously about when the time comes to exit the lift and hitting the sink. Then bobbing along at cloudbase, sucking a little O2 now and again, with 2 miles of clear air between your belly and the valley floor. Of cause this was in a hang glider, and the place was Owens Valley, CA (Hwy 395 - Bishop) and almost 10 years ago when my adrenaline demand was slightly larger than it is today.
DKjens