I haven't watched the video yet (it's an hour long). What were your impressions from watching it?Mary Conrads Sanburn said:
I live in the Bay area. I thought it was very informative!Well, okay, but why should I spend an hour to watch it? What are the main points and the parts that you found interesting? I do sometimes watch hour-long YouTube videos, but I need to be motivated to spend that much time. Like this post by @anorlunda that had a link to a video on Dynamic Soaring -- that hour-long video was well worth the time to watch it.berkeman said:
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