What glider will fit a 6' 7" giant?

On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:39:46 +0000, Nigel Cottrell wrote:

It might be worth trying a Mosquito if that is the sort of price range
he is looking at, it has a pretty roomy cockpit. I doubt the DG 200
would work and it certainly wouldn't with a parachute particularly if
his feet are in proportion to his height! The ASW 20 might be worth
trying with the seat back removed and a back pack chute but it isn't
very wide.( the 19 / Pegase are very similar if he doesn't fancy flaps.)

If he fits one of those he'll fit them all: the cockpits are essentially
identical: if you sight along the Pegase fuselage under the wing you can
see where the 20's NASA style ventilation inlet was plugged with filler
when the revised moulds for the Pegase fuselage were being made.

I'd suggest he also looks at a Standard Cirrus or a Mini-Nimbus - the
fuselages are identical. I've not flown either, but have sat in a Cirrus
75 (the Std Cirrus derivative with elevators in place of the all-moving
elevator). Its the biggest single seat cockpit I've been in. Its almost
too wide: the width of the turtledeck restricts rear vision. I don't know
if it would be long enough, but there looked to be plenty of room down
there.


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I don't think the Open Cirrus is a runner. I'm 6ft 1in and in mine I
needed to remove the seat hammock fitting to stop my head hitting the
canopy. It might work without a chute, but I wouldn't recommend that.

I used to own an Astir CS and that had a lot of headroom, so would be
worth checking out. Standard Cirrus is said to be equally roomy..