Visiting France and Italy -- any two-seaters need ballast?

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:47:57 -0700, Tuno wrote:

I am hoping to fly with a private operator, as opposed to visiting a
commercial gliderport, but any vacation flying opportunity will be
gladly considered.

AFAICT German gliding is mostly club based, like the UK. Anyway, if you
take your medical certificate, license and log book you should be able to
just rock up and fly provided the field you visit has spare capacity that
day.

Back in 2003 I did just that at the gliding school on the Wasserkuppe.
The office OKed my papers in about 5 mins flat and sent me out to the
flight line for a check flight, after which I got to fly an ASK-23 (the
first one I'd seen). The whole atmosphere was like a UK gliding club and
the procedure was almost exactly the same.


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