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Where can I train in a PW-6? Seminole Lake's is down formaintenance for a couple of months
On Sunday, September 10, 2017 at 5:00:36 AM UTC-4, Paul T wrote:
At 20:40 09 September 2017, Andreas Maurer wrote: On Thu, 07 Sep 2017 17:17:26 +0000, Paul T wrote: NO there hasn't always been the Club Class - that didn't evolve until the 90's - and that took awhile to get established for the same reasons. You think a Std. Cirrus is nice looking? Looks like a humped back whale to me - always thought it was the ugliest of the first generation Std. Class ships. My club organized a the German Club Class Championchips in 1986, and even then it was anything but new. In 1990 it was around at least 15 years in Europe, and it was a huge success right from the start. Yes but Germany is not the world and I would say for the majority of national aeroclubs Club Class did not get fully established until the 1990's and indeed the first 'World Championship' was 2001 , after the World Class whose first championship was in 1997. Indeed I can remember there was some 'sloth'/resistance to the implementation of Club Class in the UK, and the USA is still trying to get its act together on this class. Indeed their is still some 'snobbery' around, that views Club Class as a training class to move up to the 'real' FAI classes. This still does not take away from the fact that we now have 6 FAI classes for fairly wealthy individuals, and 1 class for the normal income guys- 'Club Class' - and a rapidly declining number of pilots. The 13.5 m class with an entry point to buy a competitive ship at least equal to 15m class does not in my opinion help the situation. Over reliance on only fairly wealthy individuals being able to be competitive at national and international level is not going to grow the sport. You are lucky that you fly in Germany where there is fairly easy access to competitive club ships - for example in the UK there are no civilian clubs with access to even a competitive standard class ship i.e. Discus 2/LS8, and very few, maybe 2-3 clubs in the USA and Canada. Maybe a few more clubs with access to a Duo Discus/DG1001 which I suppose you could use in 20M class. I'll speak for the US. I don't know what your definition is of the "regular individual" that you seem to think is blocked out. In the US, we have Club, Sports, and Standard classes that all can be flown competitively without having to have the latest glider. Standard in the US is a limited handicap class that allows LS-4, ASW-24, Discus, DG300, etc. to be competitive. If you have one of those gliders, you have 3 national classes you can fly every year. The World Class died in the US as a competition class because the owners of those gliders(PW-5s) are mostly not competition pilots. They bought the PW-5 because it was sort of a "modern 1-26". Easy to fly. light to rig, not too expensive. They didn't but them to compete. The reality is that the biggest barrier to competing is not the gliders, but the time and money to go to competitions. Over and over in our polls, time is the biggest issue. Gliders never seem to come up. FWIW UH |
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Where can I train in a PW-6? Seminole Lake's is down for maintenancefor a couple of months
Dear Ben. Sarah Arnold at Chilhowie gliderport in Benton Tennessee just purchased a PW6. Give her a call. I'm sure she will be happy to get you trained up. Best of luck.
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Where can I train in a PW-6? Seminole Lake's is down formaintenance for a couple of months
On Friday, September 1, 2017 at 6:56:36 AM UTC-4, wrote:
Hi, all. I have a PW-5 that I bought but have never flown. Since the PW-6 is the 2-place trainer for the PW-5, I was hoping to train in a PW-6 for and hour or so before attempting the PW-5. I just spoke with Seminole Lake Gliderport (here in Florida) who said that their PW-6 is down for maintenance for a couple of months. Unfortunately SSA's search engine(as far as I know) doesn't have a search filter to find out which gliderports have a PW-6 available for training. Does anyone know if there is one in (or near) Florida? or how can I find out where are all the PW-6's available for training in the US? Ben |
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Where can I train in a PW-6? Seminole Lake's is down formaintenance for a couple of months
The Tidewater Soaring Society, SE VA has a PW-6. There are only 6-7 in the US. Most of the club pages linked to the SSA have a listing of club ships once you open the club's webpage. I transitioned to the PW5 years ago straight from a 1-26 without any problems, just don't get slow on the flare and land tail low.
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Where can I train in a PW-6? Seminole Lake's is down formaintenance for a couple of months
Sugarbush Soaring will have two very nice PW-6, one ASK-21, and (hopefully) one SGS 2-33 next season.
For single seat rentals: one pristine SGS 1-26E restored last year by K&L, and one old but nice Grob G102. www.sugarbush.org |
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Where can I train in a PW-6? Seminole Lake's is down for maintenancefor a couple of months
Come to Sugarbush Soaring. We have two.
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Where can I train in a PW-6? Seminole Lake's is down for maintenancefor a couple of months
If you're still looking, Seminole Lake's is back flying.
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