New Glider Dream Elon Musk Flow

I drive a car with a manual gearbox - and would never trade it for an automatic gearbox car. The same with my glider flaps....

All gliders should be made of wood.

On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 06:36:15 -0800, krasw wrote:

All gliders should be made of wood.

I'd settle for new-build Std Libelles with a revised, safety cockpit
structure.

On Sunday, 11 February 2018 18:10:18 UTC+2, Kiwi User wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 06:36:15 -0800, krasw wrote:

All gliders should be made of wood.

I'd settle for new-build Std Libelles with a revised, safety cockpit
structure.

If you crash glider, you will arrive at accident scene quarter inch after your glider structure. No safety cockpit will make fatal crashes survivable. If you want to improve safety rocket parachute is way to go. Or fly-by-wire control system that prevents pilot to do anything stupid.

On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 09:54:40 -0800, krasw wrote:

On Sunday, 11 February 2018 18:10:18 UTC+2, Kiwi User wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 06:36:15 -0800, krasw wrote:

All gliders should be made of wood.

I'd settle for new-build Std Libelles with a revised, safety cockpit
structure.

If you crash glider, you will arrive at accident scene quarter inch
after your glider structure. No safety cockpit will make fatal crashes
survivable.

Sure, but the cockpit structure Schleicher introduced with the ASW-24 was
a big improvement on previous ones for pilot survivability. One of the
competition pilots in my club walked away from an almost totalled ASW-28
and reckons she'd have been a lot worse off in any earlier generation
cockpit.

Or fly-by-wire control system that prevents pilot to do anything stupid.

I'm somewhat unconvinced about that. Watch the AA pilot lecture he
https://vimeo.com/159496346


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Agreed, I can't speak for other MFR's, but in the ASx line since the -24, it's about as good as you can get without being in a sorta newer metal ship (like a 1-35).
I've been to a couple nose ins in some other brands of "glass gliders" and the cockpit "egg shells" about where the pilots knees are.
Thus, lower legs take the brunt of the impact.

Best bet, don't crash..........
Next best bet, metal glider.
Close behind, a ASx series in/after the -24.

As stated, not sure how others are doing in newer ship designs, I can only comment on AS.