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Dan G wrote:
Thanks for your replies. It sounds like keeping GRP gliders in trailers looks like the answer, although has anyone experience of using all-weather covers (e.g. Jaxida) year-round? I've no direct experience of covers myself, but it seems to take nearly as long to take the covers off a glider as to rig it. The exception seems to be Open Class gliders, though even there the difference can be marginal. As someone who nagged a syndicate of which I was a member into keeping our Astir in its trailer, rather than a hangar, I can say that once we were in practice it took less time to rig the aircraft than to extract it from the back of the hangar. With practice and a few rigging aids (trestles and a dolly to roll the wing around) I'd think a modern 2-seater would be ready to fly in about 30 mins (and never allow more than 3 people to be involved in rigging - each extra person doubles the time it will take!). Once members are in practice, rigging each day is really no big deal. It also helps to encourage XC flights; the glider has to be de-rigged somewhere so a field is really not much worse than the airfield. |
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