At 04:29 PM 23/08/2010, you wrote:
Not to mention waiting months for the parts from the Eastern
European factories...
We have both a Dg1000 and a K21. We bought the DG1000 first.
Interestingly enough the K21 is the most popular, with good reason.
Which ab-initio pilot would be concerned with the wing section, or
that one was designed 25 years ago? To the untrained eye, they are
viewed as sleek and modern compared to the K13.
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The K21 will be fine if you are trying to do *flying* training in
gliders. If you are about training and inspiring *soaring* pilots who
can already fly because they were trained in something with an engine
the ASK21 isn't so good. Uninspiring performance. Not impressive.
There's nothing wrong with gliders for teaching people to fly IN THE AIR.
It is on the ground that they fail badly. The logistics and personnel
required to generate another sortie is huge by comparison to
power. As one of the difficult things in flying is learning to land,
which is only done by repetitive practice, using something that can
generate 10 or so landings in an hour clock time with only the
student and instructor instead of a tow pilot, wingtip runners etc
would seem to make sense. If the pilot then decides he'd rather fly
ultralights etc, he probably wasn't going to stay flying gliders for
long anyway.
Mike
Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978
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