World Class: Recent Great News

It states on DG's website that the moulds for the LS4
have been released to Slovenia. So this would indicate
that the LS4 will be entering production again.

Discus 1's are also still in production in the CS variety
last time I heard.

Word.


At 17:06 11 March 2004, Owain Walters wrote:

Gregg,

I dont want to appear petty in the face of your posting
but Ben said:

1)LS4 not LS3, and until very recently the LS4 was
in production

2)Ben owns a Discus 2a. I believe he said a Discus
1.

I dont want to cast doubt on the ability of the pilots
in the competition you mentioned but I interpret your
story that the competition was of a low class. Any
competition where anyone who misses two days and only
just misses out on winning is hardly testing the pilots
talents.

Unless he/she likes being a big fish in a small pond
he/she will move out of the World Class pretty quickly.


Again, Ben said that he feels, as I do, that most World
Level pilots are very interested in the idea of a single-glider
compeition but they are not willing to buy somethng
(however 'cheap') just to potter around at 1960s performance.

Owain

I would suggest looking at the World ratings before
you cast doubts on peoples ability.


At 16:36 11 March 2004, G.Kurek wrote:
Going futher with you logic - How about making ETA
the new world
class? Your Discus is a piece of crap comparing to
ETA and who would
want to fly Discus when you can compete in better glider?

And making LS3 - an used glider that is long out of
producion a world
class?
Its like signing the idea of world class to die right
from the
begining. Look nobody forces you to sell you glider
and step down, you
can compete in your own class, why do you want make
your glider apply
to two classes at once?

I think I've pointed it out before, look at last years
world class
nationals, a guy showed up and after missing 2 full
days of
competition and while flying a borrowed glider that
wasnt really in
the shape for competeing, took second place missing
the first place by
millimeters. What does it mean about the pilots? I
suppose you cant
complain about the glider anymore, everyone had the
same...

Where I live around Chicagoland area I've seen the
idea of Pw-5
working - almost every club has one and there is lots
of private ones.
Like someone pointed out earlier world class was not
was not designed
to be a massive success, dont like it? Stay out! But
stop spitting at
it all the time, because there are people that I respect
that fly it
and they much better glider pilots than you are. And
YES it pretty
lame that in todays economy this is all you can get
for around
25K(new), but untill they gonna start making gliders
in China we have
to live with what we've got.

Regards

Gregg Kurek