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July 21st 10, 12:24 AM
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Forgiving sailplanes
bildan wrote:
On Jul 20, 2:55 pm, John wrote: bildan wrote: My experience is the difference between the worst and best handling glider is fairly small. No. Give a low-time student an ASK-21 and he will happily thermal away. Give the same student a Fox and he will kill himself. .... Let me repeat my key point - you can't buy safety, you have to earn it .... Without any doubt. But you claimed that the difference in handling among gliders was "fairly small". And this just isn't so. 
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