wrote:

Naresh,

Would you please share with us:
- What are your total glider hours flown as PIC ?
- Total hours flown in gliders with L/D40.
- Actual hours flown in gliders with L/D40 this year.

You mentioned only having 4 log books and 1250 flights.
Mark

Mark

Among glass ships, I have flown Astir Jeans, Speed Astir (L/D ~40), LS4
(few flights), twin Astir, Janus (L/D 40 solo and carrying joyriding
pax, flapped), DG500 (L/D 40 solo and carrying joyriding pax), Fox,
ASK21 (over 20 hours this year carrying joyriding pax. DG300 (L/D 40
over 70 hours done this year alone and four flights on DG300 and one on
K21 in the last 4 weeks inspite of non-soaring weather here). All this
was known by the German/swiss/austrian distributor. He knew the hours
and the flights.

In addition, I've flown a host of lower performace gliders since
1982-1992 [Schweizer 2-22ek (my first solo), 2-33, 1-26 (over
200flights), K6, K7, Olmpia, T21b, Grurau baby]

The reason that I'm in the market for a new glider is that the DG300 of
the club will be sold, since I flew 95% of its time this year and the
others dont fly the DG300. I'd like to buy a high perf glider in a
syndicate. The gliders under consideration were (old ls8, old ventus,
new Lak17 and 19 and Diana-2).

Best,
Naresh