At 12:37 PM 19/08/2010, you wrote about the ASK21
Yes I'm sure it is a very nice obsolete glider. It badly needs a new
wing with a modern airfoil, a retractable landing gear (taildragger
like the vast majority of single seat gliders) and a new lower drag
tail. Then it would be called a Duo Discus I guess.
If a person wanted to learn to fly gliders and was offered a K13,
ASK21, Blanik etc and was told this will take months and months if
not years, you will spend all day the the gliding club and get maybe
3 15 to 20 minute flights and be pushing gliders around or
retrieving them from the far end of the strip when students misjudge
while learning to land and there was a 98% chance that you would
NEVER become a competent glider pilot because you would leave the
sport out of frustration after having spent heaps of time and money
at an organisation not properly set up or dedicated to flying
training or offered a Jabiru (poverty pack model under A$70,000 ex
factory and perfectly adequate for basic flying training) and 50
hours flying during which only you and the instructor need show up
and you would be competent to take off and land, fly around, do
visual and GPS cross country navigation, do field selection and
generally develop airmanship followed by a gliding conversion of a
dozen or so aerotows and a few hours learning thermalling and some
short cross country flights in a high performance glider like a
Duo,which do you think the person would choose?
Mike
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