Ka-6CR

[John Price[_1_]]

It's a fine ship. Pay attention to the comments about
pre-buy inspections, though. Gren Siebels flew one
for several years and he was 6'+. The E model is more
comfortable yet.

Personally, I wouldn't buy a 1-26 (yes, I have owned
one). I have also owned a Skylark 4 (which I wish I
still had) and an SH-1 - in my opinion the ultimate
wooden sailplanes. The performance of the 1-26 is very
poor compared to a Ka-6 and you will be extremely frustrated.

Always buy the most performance you can afford.

[Surfer!]

In message >, John Price
> writes
<snip>
>
>Always buy the most performance you can afford.

That you have the ability to fly. There's no point if you start by
scaring yourself silly with tender handling and/or a complicated ship.
BTW how strange to call a glider a ship - I doubt they float very
well...

--
Surfer!
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[Eric Greenwell]

Surfer! wrote:
> In message >, John Price
> > writes
> <snip>
>>
>> Always buy the most performance you can afford.
>
> That you have the ability to fly. There's no point if you start by
> scaring yourself silly with tender handling and/or a complicated ship.

Yes, some people do find the transition from a slower, easier to land
glider to the higher performance glider intimidating, and don't develop
their cross-country skills because prospect of a field landing becomes
too worrisome. And some will pursue cross-country a bit too exuberantly,
not realizing the difficulty the higher landing speeds and their limited
field selection abilities will cause them. I'm glad my cross-country
career began in a Ka-6e. It saved me from myself a couple times.

But, low performance isn't just for inexperienced pilots. There is an
advantage to a very good pilot that wants to fly as hard and as long as
possible: at the end of the day, you are not nearly so far from home.
Jim Hard's exploits come to mind. If he was doing those kinds of flights
in a 15 meter glider instead of a 1-26, it would be costing him a lot
more in time, money, and burned out retrieve drivers.

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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA

"Transponders in Sailplanes" on the Soaring Safety Foundation website
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[Tony[_1_]]

Im pretty sure that Jim's retrieve drivers are still burned out after
the amazing cross country flights he does in his 1-26. I havent been
able to keep up with his status this year, but last year he had two
diamond distance flights, the most in our region!

[Eric Greenwell]

Tony wrote:
> Im pretty sure that Jim's retrieve drivers are still burned out after
> the amazing cross country flights he does in his 1-26. I havent been
> able to keep up with his status this year, but last year he had two
> diamond distance flights, the most in our region!

Maybe he needs to go back to the 2-22, like he flew when he was in our
club a long time ago.

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"Transponders in Sailplanes" on the Soaring Safety Foundation website
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"A Guide to Self-launching Sailplane Operation" at www.motorglider.org

[Mike Schumann]

And in a higher performance glider Jim Hard would not have had nearly the
achievement that he attained in a 1-26!

Mike Schumann

"Eric Greenwell" > wrote in message
news:fvdSg.2751$422.1077@trnddc03...
> Surfer! wrote:
>> In message >, John Price
>> > writes
>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Always buy the most performance you can afford.
>>
>> That you have the ability to fly. There's no point if you start by
>> scaring yourself silly with tender handling and/or a complicated ship.
>
> Yes, some people do find the transition from a slower, easier to land
> glider to the higher performance glider intimidating, and don't develop
> their cross-country skills because prospect of a field landing becomes too
> worrisome. And some will pursue cross-country a bit too exuberantly, not
> realizing the difficulty the higher landing speeds and their limited field
> selection abilities will cause them. I'm glad my cross-country career
> began in a Ka-6e. It saved me from myself a couple times.
>
> But, low performance isn't just for inexperienced pilots. There is an
> advantage to a very good pilot that wants to fly as hard and as long as
> possible: at the end of the day, you are not nearly so far from home. Jim
> Hard's exploits come to mind. If he was doing those kinds of flights in a
> 15 meter glider instead of a 1-26, it would be costing him a lot more in
> time, money, and burned out retrieve drivers.
>
> --
> Note: email address new as of 9/4/2006
> Change "netto" to "net" to email me directly
>
> Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA
>
> "Transponders in Sailplanes" on the Soaring Safety Foundation website
> www.soaringsafety.org/prevention/articles.html
>
> "A Guide to Self-launching Sailplane Operation" at www.motorglider.org