Stephen Clark wrote:
> On the radio today the chap who glided across the English Channel said that
> he could not take his bearings and had to rely on an aeroplane to guide him.
> I wonder why he did not use a GPS device with a way-point set as say,
> somewhere inland like Paris?
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The actual story is that he wasn't a hang glider pilot. He was a
skydiver with a special suit and "glider wings" attached. He was holding
onto the wings with both hands and couldn't manage a GPS. BTW, he
crossed the Channel free falling from 30,000 ft over Dover and glided to
Calais in just over 7 minutes. CNN.com had an article on him today.