On Aug 6, 10:59*am, John Smith wrote:
Darryl Ramm wrote:
The action for new gliders is is in 18m.

I'm not so sure. Our club has a couple of 15/18m ships. You'd be
surprized how many leisure pilots fly them with the 15m wingtips as soon
as the weather is halfways reasonable.

By "new action" I meant sales of new gliders. What configuration
people will fly in a 18m/15m configurable ship and whether they would
buy a 15m only ship, a 18m/15m configurable ship or even an 18m only
ship is a different question.

A 18m/15m ship has a configuration advantage over a 15m ship and
therefore likely another reason to purchase (e.g. an ASG-29 or
similar).

Darryl