Monerai P Self Launching Sailplane

On Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 4:32:12 PM UTC-5, Scott Williams wrote:
I once saw a capable and skilled pilot fly a monerai as a pure glider.
On his first flight in it, I thought his wife and child would be witness
to his death, as they were at the airport that day.
he reported later that he could only turn left, and could only fly it level
with full side stick right.

I witnessed a Monerai crash, where the glider had been improperly rebuilt
after a prior crash. Another pilot rushing to the crash scene drove over the
crashed pilot's son's foot, but that was the only injury that day.
Can't make this stuff up...

ANY glider built improperly is a hazard!

http://www.nadler.com/public/1995_Fl...e_Monerai.html

See ya, Dave

that story about Dave Nadler flying the Monerai is probably the best gift the Monerai has given to the sport of soaring...

Dave Nadler wrote on 11/8/2017 1:39 PM:
On Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 4:32:12 PM UTC-5, Scott Williams wrote:
I once saw a capable and skilled pilot fly a monerai as a pure glider.
On his first flight in it, I thought his wife and child would be witness
to his death, as they were at the airport that day.
he reported later that he could only turn left, and could only fly it level
with full side stick right.

I witnessed a Monerai crash, where the glider had been improperly rebuilt
after a prior crash. Another pilot rushing to the crash scene drove over the
crashed pilot's son's foot, but that was the only injury that day.
Can't make this stuff up...

ANY glider built improperly is a hazard!

http://www.nadler.com/public/1995_Fl...e_Monerai.html

Base on your article, I would judge a Monerai as "very unsuitable" for the
original poster, and that he would be much safer buying factory-built ship that
has a good reputation for easy handling in all situations. If he were in my club,
I would volunteer to help him find a glider that does not has several caveats
attached to it, such as a Ka-6.


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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me)
- "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation"
https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...ad-the-guide-1
- "Transponders in Sailplanes - Dec 2014a" also ADS-B, PCAS, Flarm

http://soaringsafety.org/prevention/...anes-2014A.pdf