What glider will fit a 6' 7" giant?

I am trying to help a friend find a glider that he can fit into. He is
looking for a club class glider or slighty higher cost. What gliders
would he be able to fit into?

Probably worth his time to try sitting in a Genesis. It has a large
cockpit.

On Nov 25, 7:26*am, Scott Alexander
wrote:
I am trying to help a friend find a glider that he can fit into. He is
looking for a club class glider *or slighty higher cost. What gliders
would he be able to fit into?

Try this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...u-7_glider.jpg

Not sure there are many about.......

On Nov 25, 7:26*am, Scott Alexander
wrote:
I am trying to help a friend find a glider that he can fit into. He is
looking for a club class glider *or slighty higher cost. What gliders
would he be able to fit into?

I've heard a lot of people say the Grob Astir is very roomy.

On Nov 25, 9:40*am, Westbender wrote:
On Nov 25, 7:26*am, Scott Alexander
wrote:

I am trying to help a friend find a glider that he can fit into. He is
looking for a club class glider *or slighty higher cost. What gliders
would he be able to fit into?

I've heard a lot of people say the Grob Astir is very roomy.

I am 6'3 and I just fit into my Grob 102. I could be a lot heavier,
but no taller.

If I can do math correctly, he's 2m tall. Well, in my opinion (I'm
1.87m and I have some friends over 2m) it very much depends on his
body shape, the leg-torso proportion, and how fat or slim he is.

Being slim helps a lot, and he might fit into an LS4 or LS1f, maybe a
DG202. Astir cockpits also come in different variants, some of them
are quite roomy and comfortable. You should investigate further.

At a higher price, the "C" variants of Ventus2 / Discus 2 sailplanes
are the best for tall pilots.

aldo cernezzi

On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:45:49 +0100, cernauta wrote:


Being slim helps a lot, and he might fit into an..

I just recalled of a friend of mine, who at 190cm flies an "A"
fuselage: he has a special parachute. He wears only a body harness,
while the canopy is located inside the luggage compartment.

a very thin parachute may be enough, anyway.


aldo

If he is slim, he might fit into an Open Cirrus. I have heard of
folks 6' 4" fitting in with no problem

aerodyne

It might be worth trying a Mosquito if that is the sort of price range
he is looking at, it has a pretty roomy cockpit. I doubt the DG 200
would work and it certainly wouldn't with a parachute particularly if
his feet are in proportion to his height!
The ASW 20 might be worth trying with the seat back removed and
a back pack chute but it isn't very wide.( the 19 / Pegase are very
similar if he doesn't fancy flaps.)





At 16:05 25 November 2010, cernauta wrote:
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:45:49 +0100, cernauta wrote:


Being slim helps a lot, and he might fit into an..

I just recalled of a friend of mine, who at 190cm flies an "A"
fuselage: he has a special parachute. He wears only a body
harness,
while the canopy is located inside the luggage compartment.

a very thin parachute may be enough, anyway.


aldo

On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:39:46 +0000, Nigel Cottrell wrote:

It might be worth trying a Mosquito if that is the sort of price range
he is looking at, it has a pretty roomy cockpit. I doubt the DG 200
would work and it certainly wouldn't with a parachute particularly if
his feet are in proportion to his height! The ASW 20 might be worth
trying with the seat back removed and a back pack chute but it isn't
very wide.( the 19 / Pegase are very similar if he doesn't fancy flaps.)

If he fits one of those he'll fit them all: the cockpits are essentially
identical: if you sight along the Pegase fuselage under the wing you can
see where the 20's NASA style ventilation inlet was plugged with filler
when the revised moulds for the Pegase fuselage were being made.

I'd suggest he also looks at a Standard Cirrus or a Mini-Nimbus - the
fuselages are identical. I've not flown either, but have sat in a Cirrus
75 (the Std Cirrus derivative with elevators in place of the all-moving
elevator). Its the biggest single seat cockpit I've been in. Its almost
too wide: the width of the turtledeck restricts rear vision. I don't know
if it would be long enough, but there looked to be plenty of room down
there.


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