Touring Motorgliders for Club Use and Instruction

On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 9:40:12 PM UTC-5, Dave Springford wrote:
I have to agree with the comment about handling. Motor gliders like the G-109, Katana Extreme, Sinus or Phoenix are really tail wheel aircraft and handle nothing like a glider during take-off and landing.

Dave, as far as I can tell ALL single place modern sailplanes are "tail wheel aircraft". What are you trying to say?
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A tailwheel aircraft with two main wheels and a tailwheel handle completely differently than a tailwheel glider with all the wheels on the glider's centre line.

They bounce more and they go around in circles on the ground much more easily.

At 00:34 20 February 2014, Dave Springford wrote:
A tailwheel aircraft with two main wheels and a tailwheel handle
completely
differently than a tailwheel glider with all the wheels on the glider's
centre line.

They bounce more and they go around in circles on the ground much more
easily.


As I said, my experience is that the nose-wheel version of the Sinus DOES
handle more like a glider on landing, certainly during the touchdown phase,
during the hold-off the nose does not obscure the view as much as the
tail-dragger version. Obviously you can indulge in 'wheelbarrowing' and
break the nose-leg if you do the sort of glider landing that I have seen a
lot in Europe!