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Yeah I forgot the mention The Blanik is sort of the VW Bus of Gliders.
When you start flying the 35:1 Fiberglass gliders you find out what Smooth and quiet really with nice light controls. Brian |
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It isn't the steep banks the make parachutes the norm. It is the 1 or 2
other gliders in the same thermal less then 200 feet away not being that uncommon that makes the parachute the norm. Also if you ever fly a contests, then parachutes are required by the contest (usually) and if you have a $1000 parachute it seems kind of silly to leave it home in the closet. Especially when most gliders are designed to accomodate the parachutes. Brian |
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Gliders seem like they would be alot of fun, may just have to try one out
for myself. After I get done with the sport pilot thing of course. ![]() Patrick student SPL aircraft structural mech "Brian" wrote in message ups.com... It isn't the steep banks the make parachutes the norm. It is the 1 or 2 other gliders in the same thermal less then 200 feet away not being that uncommon that makes the parachute the norm. Also if you ever fly a contests, then parachutes are required by the contest (usually) and if you have a $1000 parachute it seems kind of silly to leave it home in the closet. Especially when most gliders are designed to accomodate the parachutes. Brian |
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On 2005-09-01, wrote:
No problem there, either... lets review the FARS... oh, ya, full spins and loops are intentional aerobatic maneuvers, and parachutes are required. Big deal - most glider seats are designed for parachutes, and most glider pilots I know routinely wear chutes. It shouldn't be hard to borrow a couple of parachutes if the club or glider FBO doesn't have one for the glider anyway. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:06:59 -0400, T o d d P a t t i s t
wrote in :: Oh boy, sailplane XC story time. Let's see - shall I describe my first outlanding Tell me more. This sounds like a doozy. |
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On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:53:32 -0400, T o d d P a t t i s t
wrote in :: The adjacent road was quiet, there was no one there, no houses nearby, just a couple of fields, so we drove a quarter mile away to his house. Wow! What a bizarre set of circumstances. Thanks for sharing. Did you ever find out who alerted all the circus performers? Perhaps a Good Samaritan called the police in one county, and they alerted the other county police/fire departments, and the media was listening on the scanner? So what happened at the loony ranch? Did the inmates start eating the fabric off the airframe? :-) |
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T o d d P a t t i s t wrote:
I called my crew, and told them where I was. As I sat there talking to the man, we heard the first siren. I thought nothing of it. Then the second, and he said something like "I wonder if there's a fire?" Doh! says my brain. .... A German glider club created a form sheet to be placed in the abandoned cockpit after an outlanding: http://www.segelflug.de/vereine/hotz...senlandung.htm It cannot really be translated, because it contains are a couple of hidden insider jokes. Anyway, it roughly (and very freely) translates to somethiing like this (and yes, it *is* a joke): For your information This isn't an airplane crash, it's a legal outlanding as described in the FAR xxx. The pilot is healthy as documented in his medical [in Germany glider pilots need a medical] and he is on his way to inform the owner of the field about the possible damage done to the plants. So it is neither nessessairy to alarm the SAR nor to inform the governor, the FAA or the FBI. I'll be back soon! The pilot Formsheet No XXXXX Issued and confirmed (stamp of the club) |
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On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:54:23 -0400, T o d d P a t t i s t
wrote in :: So what happened at the loony ranch? Did the inmates start eating the fabric off the airframe? :-) No. I came in the back door of this gothic hospital-like building to see some beefy guys in white coats and a nurse at a nurses station. "Hi, I just landed a glider in your back yard. Can I use the phone and call my friends to come get me out of here, and oh, by the way, would you unlock the gate out there?" You're lucky they didn't hit you with the Chlorpromazine right there. Thanks for the chuckles. |
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("T o d d P a t t i s t" wrote)
Or should it be the time I landed on the county insane asylum property - just out of sight behind the trees, but inside the fenced area .... I've always enjoyed the 'story' Dad tells of the guy released from the funny farm who, one day, gets called crazy by the office manager - where he's working as a janitor. The former 'guest of the county' frantically pulls a piece of paper out from his wallet, waves it at his boss and says, "I got a piece of paper saying I ain't crazy. What do you got?" Montblack |
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![]() You're scaring me. A glider pilot knows *always* where he will safely land should the lift disappear. (And safely means with the glider intact.) This is basic cross country tactics and essential for a long life. Easy in some areas, some planning required in others. Stefan Didn't mean to imply that. In the years of glider flying I've done there has never been a time I couldn't find a safe landing spot from where I was, cross country or otherwise. I can't say that if the prop stops in the light aircraft I fly I would be able say the same. Look at it this way - In a Cessna, on a standard 3 degree glide slope or VASI, you won't make the airport from the outer marker without the engine. Try it some time. When I'm in a light aircraft I'm always tooking for a landing spot under me. When flying a high performance glider, at any reasonable altitude, your glide will take you to places you can't see, but yes you plan, but you don't have to be obsessive about it. Can you get in a place where you can't land? Sure. I once was on a flight test of an ASH-25. We towed to 10K AGL on a cold day with little or no lift. We flew over 50 miles from the airport and returned. Total flight time was 1 hour 55 min. With zero lift from 10K we had over a 100 mile circle to find a safe spot to land. In my area, I'm sure that includes at least a hundred airports or strips and at least 10 times as many farmer's fields. Did I spend any mental time worring about finding a landing spot? I think not, but I sure as hell enjoyed myself. |
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