Op woensdag 11 april 2018 16:45:06 UTC+2 schreef Michael Opitz:
At 06:34 11 April 2018, Senna Van den Bosch wrote:
Op dinsdag 10 april 2018 20:49:30 UTC+2 schreef Dan Daly:
On Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 2:23:03 PM UTC-4, Senna Van den
Bosch
wrote:
I have bought my first glider and picking it up saturday.
It's registered in Germany but doesn't have a competition
number, how
are they chosen? Where can you register one?

What did you end up getting? Congratulations!

Found a lovely DG 101, price was low but needed a new radio so it's
fair.

Just remember, you now do DG take-offs. Set the trim, and leave the
elevator alone as you roll down the runway. It will lift off very nicely
on it's own from the two point attitude. If you try and raise the tail
first, and then try to fly the main wheel off, you will get airborne only
briefly before it bounces back down. That's how you can tell a new DG
pilot every time - they bounce the take-offs. Have fun. It's a nice
glider.

RO

Do you mean aerotows? I have been told by the club's FI before flying our Pegase on aerotow that it behaves the same, with large possibility of it bouncing.