On Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at 1:56:06 PM UTC+3, Jacopo Romei wrote:
At 156 km in his database, it's beating
the ASK-21 and Grob 103, which everyone loves.

Yes Bruce.
This is the *exactly* the "coup de théâtre" I am looking for by letting everybody compare this data among gliders.

Try enjoying the comparing featu
http://www.gliderreview.com/comparin...arszawska-pw-5

Obviously that doesn't necessarily mean that ASK 21 is harder to fly far than PW 5 -- because ASK 21's average could be affected by many other factors -- but it *definitely* means that PW 5 is capable of flights *that* long, which may be unexpected for a rookie like me listening to rumors only.

I don't know why it should be unexpected! The PW5 isn't as high performance a glider as a Discus or LS4 or even a Cirrus or Libelle, obviously. But it's very comparable to things such as the formerly much-loved Ka-6, in which lots of people used to regularly fly 300+ km.

I'm a pretty average pilot, but around 2000 I was taking a club PW5 to NZ contests with a dozen other PW5s and nearly as many Ka6s and tasks of 150 - 250 km. We had a lot of fun, and most people finished most of the tasks.