On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 08:56:30 -0700, tech.norcal wrote:

I do have time in our glass ship the PW-6 (two seat version of "world
class" PW-5). And I LOVE it. I was hoping to get checked out in our
PW-5 before the season ends, but that may not happen due to old man
winter stealing our fun.

I've flown a PW-5 about once, but for long enough to get a feel for it.
Be aware that its more like low/medium performance glass to fly (think
G102, SZD Junior, ASK-21 or Puchacz) than even mid 70's high performance
glass (e.g Pegase, Discus 1), let along anything more modern. The
instructor who said that flying a PW-5 was rather like flying a paper bag
wasn't wrong: its fairly slow and with a rather light wing loading.

I agree with John - get checked out in a modern two seater and a single
seater thats at least in the Discus 1 or Pegase class.

In the mean time if there's a Grob G103 in your area and you haven't
flown one, you could do a lot worse than adding that to your log book
before heading for Estrella. If nothing else, it will teach you quite a
bit about speed control in the circuit.


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