First Glider - No Gelcoat

TTaylor at cc.usu.edu wrote:
Eric,

I was not advocating that he buy a Std. Cirrus, only pointing out that
I found it a good ship in spite of all the nay sayers that will tell
you how bad any older ship is.

I'm sure you enjoyed ship (I enjoyed mine when I had it, but I wouldn't
fly one now, even though I have thousands more hours), but any one of
the things I mentioned take it out of the "good ship" category, in my
opinion. It's not that these things can't be compensated for by pilot
training, experience, and some modifications in the case of the wheel
brake, it's that these attributes don't need to be tolerated any more by
someone that wants a "good" glider. Further, there is no cure for the
poor crashworthiness, and (again, in my opinion) a glider should be much
better than the early 70's era gliders in this regard to get a "good"
rating these days.

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Eric Greenwell
Washington State
USA

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