On Friday, January 2, 2015 7:08:29 AM UTC-6, Cookie wrote:
SGS-1-34???

Don't pick on the 1-34! Our club has had two, just about forever...

Great club gliders! Cheap to buy...nice to fly...leave 'em outside ready to go at any time...

You can run the ridge comfortably at 100 MPH...

Those airbrakes are fantastic!

The "R" version is real quiet..

The OLC handicap makes it a real contender...With a good pilot, it can win at sports class contests too..

Did my Gold Badge (14,000' wave in NJ!!)and two Diamonds all in 1-34...

Cookie

Cookie, I did my first XC in a 1-34 out in Arizona, chasing the hotshots in their fancy glass; and occasionally fly one in our club now - but I admit I'm an "aileron man" and just can't get past how poor they are on the 1-34. I agree that the dive brakes are a hoot!

Just to avoid being tagged as a Schweizer-basher - I think the 2-32 is one of the finest big gliders ever built, love the 1-26 (especially with the sports canopy on a hot summer day), and enjoyed the 1-23 a lot. But the 2-22 (with it's simulated spoilers) and the 2-33 (you have to lift your leg off the rudder pedal to get full aileron travel? YGBSM!), not so much.

Kirk