Having flown 3 hours in a PW5 I can honestly say it was one of the most
underwhelming points of my soaring career.

Now if I take my ASW22 I have over 800 hours in that and I must say its
jolly nice!!

I liked the ASW17 and the Ventus B 16.6 was a great machine too.
My old Libelle and Kestrel were again great ships each with there own
plusses and minuses.

I find it funny that my old SZD59 at 13M would out perform a PW5 and
could pull 7G's

Guess the SZD 59 was the nearest I ever got to a PW5 ownership. But
you cant fly a PW5 inverted in the wave pulling snap rolls.

Yup case closed... PW5's really do suck!!

Al
owner of former owner of Libelle, Kestrel, ASW22, SZD59, ASW17, Ventus
B, Nimbus2M