I returned to soaring after a 15 year hiatus from flying gliders and 6 years since I had flown anything. Soaring and the avionics had changed much, for the better. The other change was significantly less private pilots flying on the weekend. Get a good instructor (much easier in soaring than power planes
) aand fly often as possible.

On Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 6:33:13 AM UTC-8, Michael wrote:
I am finally returning to Soaring after over 20 years, I earned a Private Glider rating in '91 and had @175 flights in 2-33/1-26 and a Private Power rating in '92 and 350hrs.
My goal: Regain currency/proficiency and purchase a standard class non-flapped glider.
Specifically I was looking for advice/opinions on how best to proceed to that goal in a short time frame (140 days)

Question 1: Is it unrealistic to train 2-3 flights a day twice or even 3 times a week?
Question 2: Start out in 2-33 or pay a little more for ASK/Grob from the start? (both options are available to me)

In the next @140 days I would like to get to 60 or more flights.