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...nway and the towplane is a Varga Kachina with 180 h.p. Lycoming O-360. So far, I haven't had any tow pilots complain.
Gee, do I have to give my name after telling all I can't fly very we...
Are we just to emulate the
No, we are just to emulate the racing pilots and fly on good, bad, sunny, raining, windy, hot, cold, strong, and weak days. And we want to see what's over the next ...
...ough performance for me to enjoy the type of local thermal soaring we do in Miami. Other more experienced pilots who have flow it told me the controls are well balanced and that it was fun to fly.
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...y for bolting on weights to put the C of G in the correct place for best aerobatic performance when heavy pilots are flying it. Cheers, John G.
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Is it a problem that you cannot keep thi...
... to carry more weight than the manufacturers allowable gross. This practice was popular among competition pilots, until the SSA started doing spot checks of the all up weights of gliders on the starti...
...de the Super-Spatz, with about the same fuselage but glassfibre wings.
I am not sure that many glider-pilots know this.
Safe flights to all,
Guy Ventus B (and ex-SF 27A) Belgium...
... Championships this year, it has also been bought by the Surrey & Hants. gliding club for their early pilots, they have the biggest single seater fleet of any civilian club in the U.K.
I agree...
...nothing about you using it) on other frequncies apparently you do need to have passed the test. I.E. most pilots with a 720 channel radio in the UK are breaking the law. For some reason this seems to ...
...ad. It takes experience to know the difference. You get that by flying and learning from more experienced pilots.
It is possible to have information overload now by reading too many books, very fe...
...lown up at the end of each previous day, and chose to try to nip the front side of a turn area; the smart pilots headed much further out to the 11 o'clock position returning well over time but st...
...eck the operation was the response.
An alert to the BGA produced no action. Amazing?
I bet 50% of pilots wpould fail a reversed sense aileron check.
John Firth...
This been an excellent year so far for young american soaring pilots to make leaps and bounds in experience by accessing higher-performance gliders for badge and contest work. Word comes to us of the ...
...rns) my V2 (at 11 lbs psf) would catch up to it. But the V2 is the best climber out there.
Though all pilots have reported good flying qualities, The cockpit is small and cramped. At 6'2'...
...ne sailplane pilot, and I would bet there are more of them over here also. I've also talked to some pilots, who think anything less than two engines running constitutes an emergency! ...
...side by side, comfortable reclining seating with excellent visibility and performance better than either. Pilots at all levels seem to enjoy it.
Why did side by side go the way of the dodo? Cost? ...
..., with a three-year gap during World War Two.
Thanks to a great deal of help from several kind glider pilots, I have almost managed to complete two archive sets of The Sailplane and Glider.
On...
...nk it will be of interest to the gliding community, based on the many e-mails I have received from glider pilots on the subject.
I've received a lot of good questions from glider pilots about...
...ance?? Isn't completeing those goals in the latest technological marvel morally bankrupt? One of our pilots set the goal of getting his gold in a 1-26 and did. Yes it took longer and required mor...
...aft end of a Club single place glider, and it had been there for months! And in another instance, several pilots preflighted (and subsequently flew!) a single place Club glider that had apparently bee...
... for a few years and was glad to unload it (it never flew a single hour) to amother one of these airplane pilots seeking the mythical cheap ultralight motorglider 'dream ship' to 'get i...
...ern clothes.
In Marfa, we recommend the restored Hotel Paisano, traditional gathering place of glider pilots from around the world.
Re-discover Marfa! We'll show you a good time!
Burt...
...warding information which have shown at pl.rec.lotnictwo, I have to tell You, that one of the best glider pilots ever, has departed for his last, endless flight.
He was four times medallist of Wor...
...doubt that some Ventii were a bit worse than mine in spin characteristics. I also have no doubt that some pilots may mistake a spiral dive for a spin (I've never experienced 'gaining speed&#...
...ndle the reformatting very easily in Excel. I just asked because it would be very valuable to many glider pilots besides myself.
Thanks for the wonderful resource. I worked very well for me!
I...
...nd would like to offer a recount of my impressions of this aircraft and how it performed against the best pilots and sailplanes in the United States.
Mr. Jerry Zieba of Diana Sailplanes contacted ...
Hello Larry,
I have never flown a Cirrus so I can't compare the roll rate of the sh-1 to it. However, I can say that the roll rate of an Austria is about the same as a two place Grob. The ...
...eral minor errors I have corrected by hand. I have done this both to help myself as well as to help other pilots who have found the Garrecht instructions somewhat unclear on how to actually use the VL...
I have had a Com. Glider operation for over 30 years with Blaniks,2-33,Janus and Supercubs. Eight years ago I bought a Grob Twin IIISL, which is an Acro with a Rotax Klapptriebwerk (retractable engine...
Flaperons is the term generally applied to wing trailing edge surfaces that combine the area normally occupied by flaps and ailerons, and that move as a unit. A Flaperon system will generally have a m...
... new. Plus it has the same warranty as a new unit. It also arrived in three days.
A few other glider pilots had asked me about my choice of GPS and here is what I sent them at the time:
My GPS...
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