Point taken I was thinking piston type engine since the original
post mentioned "throttle"...now in my years of glider flying, I don't
remember seeing a knob labeled throttle

Scott


T o d d P a t t i s t wrote:

Scott wrote:

If you don't bieleve it try to climb without power sometime. CFI is correct

Gliders do it all the time!


No we don't, we use power to climb, just like airplanes, we
just don't use an internal combustion engine to produce the
power, we use a thermonuclear fusion generator.