On Saturday, March 23, 2013 4:13:28 PM UTC-4, Tim Weston wrote:
Does anyone have any inside info on the pros / cons of buying a 1-35. I am interested in learning cross country. I am mostly looking to hear from any current or former 1-35 owners.



Thanks,

Tim W

The thing that's sort of jumbled around in this discussion but deserves to be explicitly stated: the transition to flaps only does need to be addressed head on, and results that come out are largely dependent upon the quality of the inputs, including you, your instructor, your pre-transition study, the glider, the airport environment. the hardest thing to find for most guys is a CFIG with a hundred full flap landings. Lacking a flap qualified CFIG, things get rather more luck dependent than we like to see in aviation. Often the whole thing goes great, sometimes it goes very badly (1st flight, PIK 20B. This gentleman over shot whole airport, pulled up, tried to make a 180, spun, saved by trees).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks2TM2VOmaw

Gives a whole new meaning to "see and avoid", doesn't it?

The normal expectation (with "good inputs") is passable airport landings immediately, precision landings with some practice, expert low energy landings with a lot of practice.

Evan Ludeman / T8