The Super Dimona's climb rate is reasonable and the turn round per tow is good when it is remembered it uses it's airbrakes during the descent. It needs a good grass runway length or hard runway to get up to climbing speed when towing and is not suitable for towing out of small grass airfields when they are soft. Don't be put off by the 115HP engine though, it's the HP available for the climb that's important.
There was an article in S&G Aug-Sept 2007 about a Grob 109B Turbo towing gliders. It's worth a read. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Newton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." <[email protected]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Glider Tugs > > On 20/01/2008, at 4:34 PM, Anthony Smith wrote: > >> Have a look at the Super Dimona's performance when towing - the Dimona >> operating at 700kg or thereabouts and a 115 HP engine staggers >> skywards >> when towing a single seater. I don't know the climb rates achieved. > > Mankind is yet to develop an instrument with sufficient precision to > measure climb rates that small? > > - mark > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > I tried an internal modem, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton > ----- Voice: +61-4-1620-2223 ------------- Fax: +61-8-82231777 ----- > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
