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#1
January 2nd 15, 01:08 PM
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What gliders do you hate?
SGS-1-34??? Don't pick on the 1-34! Our club has had two, just about forever... Great club gliders! Cheap to buy...nice to fly...leave 'em outside ready to go at any time... You can run the ridge comfortably at 100 MPH... Those airbrakes are fantastic! The "R" version is real quiet.. The OLC handicap makes it a real contender...With a good pilot, it can win at sports class contests too.. Did my Gold Badge (14,000' wave in NJ!!)and two Diamonds all in 1-34... Cookie In the spirit of fun, what gliders (makes or specific ones) do you hate, distrust, or are just plain tired of. Have you given so many rides in one model that you never want to see it again? Is there a plane that, despite treating it right, just seemed to want to hurt you? Or is there one out there that is just so ugly that you can't stand it? My pleas won't work, but let's keep it fun. .... I'll save my example for later in the discussion but I'll give you a hint; it's Polish made. Terry (XN) in a ASW-27 (which I love) 
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#2
January 2nd 15, 01:43 PM
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What gliders do you hate?
On Friday, January 2, 2015 7:08:29 AM UTC-6, Cookie wrote:
SGS-1-34??? Don't pick on the 1-34! Our club has had two, just about forever... Great club gliders! Cheap to buy...nice to fly...leave 'em outside ready to go at any time... You can run the ridge comfortably at 100 MPH... Those airbrakes are fantastic! The "R" version is real quiet.. The OLC handicap makes it a real contender...With a good pilot, it can win at sports class contests too.. Did my Gold Badge (14,000' wave in NJ!!)and two Diamonds all in 1-34... Cookie Cookie, I did my first XC in a 1-34 out in Arizona, chasing the hotshots in their fancy glass; and occasionally fly one in our club now - but I admit I'm an "aileron man" and just can't get past how poor they are on the 1-34. I agree that the dive brakes are a hoot! Just to avoid being tagged as a Schweizer-basher - I think the 2-32 is one of the finest big gliders ever built, love the 1-26 (especially with the sports canopy on a hot summer day), and enjoyed the 1-23 a lot. But the 2-22 (with it's simulated spoilers) and the 2-33 (you have to lift your leg off the rudder pedal to get full aileron travel? YGBSM!), not so much. Kirk
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#3
January 2nd 15, 02:19 PM
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What gliders do you hate?
Of around 100 glider types flown (from Slingsby Grasshopper
Primary to EB28) the only 2 I would decline to fly again are the Reinhard Cumulus (a sort of Grunau Baby with steel-tube fuselage, and the Gull 1 that did the first soaring flight across the English Channel. Both had handling I would categorise as unpleasant. Otherwise there is just as much fun to be had on a nice (or challenging) day in a Ka6 as romping for 100k plus without circling in a Nimbus 4.
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#4
January 2nd 15, 04:53 PM
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What gliders do you hate?
Terry, maybe I've already missed it here, but are your comments referring to the Diana?
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