kinsell wrote on 12/14/2020 10:35 AM:
On 12/14/20 9:54 AM, 2G wrote:
On Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 8:25:36 PM UTC-8, Eric Greenwell wrote:
Eric Greenwell wrote on 12/11/2020 2:05 PM:
Charles Zabinski wrote on 12/11/2020 1:48 PM:
There are 16 Silent 2 Electros in the FAA Registration Data Base. 3 are for sale and are all
low time. Any thoughts? Are they uncomfortable, poor penetration, what?
Call the owners and talk to them. The Electro owner I know likes to talk about his, but he
also
flies it a lot. Here is his OLC logbook for the 2020 season:
https://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-3....t=olc&pi=10497
Here's the OLC logbook of another 13.5M/FES glider pilot I know: Phil Rose. He flew seven
flights in Ely this year in his miniLak, garnering several state, national, and World records
in the process. He might be a good source of information for choosing the miniLak over an
Electro.
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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me)
- "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation"
https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...ad-the-guide-1
And he is also the pilot I cited who landed his miniLak out, stating to me that he didn't
think he had the battery capacity to do a self-retrieve even though he was quite a bit less
than 100k out of Ely.
Tom
On the seven flights Eric showed, he was taking tows to conserve battery.* If these things were
marketed as sustainers with limited range, that would be more accurate than calling them
self-launchers.
Taking tows was a tactical decision, made by a pilot seeking records and big flights in tiger
country, a situation making an airborne motor use more likely than otherwise; normally, he
flies in Washington state and self-launches. Jeff Banks, the Electro pilot I mentioned, mostly
self-launched while at Heber, Parawon, Nephi, Stout Field, and Richfield this season - 26
flights in all.
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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me)
- "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation"
https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...ad-the-guide-1