wrote:
I have had a couple of very heavy landings/groundloops in my LAK 12
('12). Comments after the first one, which involved a tree and resulted
in lots of paperwork, is that no German glider would have survived with
no damage. Thank goodness for Eastern Block over-engineering.

I think you were misled by the "12" in the subject line, because the '12
Mark and I were referring to is the ASW 12. It's quite unlike the LAK
12, which is basically an ASW 17.

As far as "over-engineering" goes, I've looked at the LAK 12, and I
didn't see anything special about the design of the cockpit, which
seemed to share all the design features and problems of gliders designed
in the 70's. The cockpit design is the part of the glider that interests
this pilot the most when it comes to crashing.

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Eric Greenwell
Washington State
USA