Margaret Flinn

AN EIGHT-HOUR slope flight! This was the last task needed by my husband, Pat, to achieve League of Silent Flight Level V. He had gotten into the LSF Soaring Accomplishments Program at my urging in 1976. The tasks are graduated in difficulty from Level I through V, so that they are never beyond the skills that a flier has at the time. As each performance level is accomplished, a voucher is sent into the Chicago office. By return mail the pilot receives another that challenges his skills to progress to a higher level. Pat had been working on the Level V tasks for almost two years. He was finding them to be not quite impossible, but very, very challenging.