Newer gliders are all designed on computers, so they can design nice Participants where these gliders get absorbed much easier. Too few competitors makes for a really screwy re-sale market.Īs I said in another post, In Europe there are enough clubs and Now, there are only ~12,000 members, and inĪddition to Open, 15m, and STD, we have 18m, Sports, Club,ġ3.5m, World, and soon a multi-seat class. Back in the 1980's, there were ~16,000 SSA members and 3 Recently, most probably due to lack of participating pilots in theĬlass. Unfortunately, D-2 prices have also fallen off
Handicapped this class, so my glider will stay competitive for theįoreseeable future. I still have the Discus-2b I bought in 1999, and there is still nothingīetter in Standard Class. The best in the world in advance, so I switched gliders. Winning a WGC, I could not afford to give up that many points to Numbers and concluded that if I wanted to have any chance of Significantly larger than the 10FPM I use above. You can reduce it down for a 9 day Nationals, and I come up withĪs I said, some of the observed performance differences were = ~260 points advantage the new glider has over the period of theĬontest GIVEN flying the same and making the same mistakes. Rate of 500FPM, and you get ~43 minutes x ~6 points per minute Time, and 4 hour tasks, that meant 3 hours cruising per day X 12ĭays = 36 hours = 2160 minutes X 10FPM = 21,600 vertical feetĪdvantage over 12 racing days. Going to fly a WGC in a good wx place (like we did in Benalla 1987), Saw much bigger differences than this on occasion). Just for this argument's sake, say that the new glider had aġ0 foot per minute cruise advantage over the old one (although I Here is how I made the comparisons and the general assumptions I Gave me the best chances in competitions. It was so rapid that I went through 6 different gliders inĨ years in order to keep on top of the performance changes, which Generation of turbulated airfoils came out, and the advancement was Nonetheless, that was the period where the newer Hold its value better due to remaining competitive for a longer Technology, which meant that my investment in my glider tended to Restrictions - which limited the quantum performance leaps with new I chose to fly in Standard Class because it had the most
#New sailplane prices serial number
To get very a low serial number of any new glider that came out in >lots into competitive ships, just one reporter's musings.īack in the 1980's I flew in 3 WGC's and pretty much had the ability >well be the equal of these newer gliders and priced right to get > weaker days, and the V3 has not competed in 15 meters. >e very innovative, has very low wing area, which might prove a >The new designs have not proven they are better than the 27.
#New sailplane prices full
As you know, the handling is absolutely superb on any of these- with or without full water.Īt 20:18 10 August 2017, Jonathan St. I doubt I would be able to tell the difference, but possibly some can. Some have reported slightly better handling. Like you did on yours, mine has much bigger dump valves and plumbing installed which gives very good dump times.Īnother straight 27- 27B difference is the taller factory winglets on the B model, giving slightly more effective span. The wet wings work very well and hold all the water they were designed for. Large pilots or gliders heavy from repairs/excess equipment would not have that difficulty. max mass, but some pilots of average size/mass in the straight 27 with water bags had reported having difficulty getting enough water in the wings to reach that. As far as I know, both models were certified to 500kg = 1102.31 lbs. Hank, I would consider you to be much more knowledgable about these models than I am. > Does your '27 have a max gross of more than 1102 lb? On Thursday, Augat 1:10:27 PM UTC-6, wrote:
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