On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:23:56 -0700, herbkilian wrote:

On Wednesday, June 6, 2018 at 10:48:23 AM UTC-5, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 07:54:26 -0600, Dan Marotta wrote:

That is terrific for ab initio!

Fastest I ab initio know of is a student who soloed off the winch on a
5 day course last year at my club's flatland site. I first met her when
she was flying dual on a rather 'interesting' hill site:
http://edensoaring.co.uk/ - check out how they describe their field!
This was during a club expedition at the start of October. She seemed
to handle that combination of small field and new glider type (ASK-13)
well.


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Martin, she beat me by two days. I soloed on the 7th day and the 28th
winch launch at Oerlinghausen, Germany, a well known publicly funded
gliding school. Proud to say I was 1st in my group of 7 to solo (in
Germany that means you do 3 consecutive flights). I was 30 years old.
All flights were done on the winch, glider was ASK 13.
Herb

Great stuff, Herb

She almost certainly soloed in an ASK-21, possibly/probably with a few
flights in our Puchacz included since spin training is mandatory here and
the Puchacz spins a lot more readily than an ASK-21. My club hasn't had
ASK-13s since I joined it but IIRC I had a couple of flights in a '13 at
Nympsfield a few months after I soloed and then never saw one again until
I first visited Eden Soaring. I wasn't fond of them at first, but after a
bit of ridge running I now appreciate them a bit mo easy to fly and
not as forgiving as a '21.


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