bildan wrote:
On Jul 20, 2:55 pm, John wrote:
bildan wrote:
My experience is the difference between the worst and
best handling glider is fairly small.

No. Give a low-time student an ASK-21 and he will happily thermal away.
Give the same student a Fox and he will kill himself.

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Let me repeat my key point - you can't buy safety, you have to earn it
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Without any doubt. But you claimed that the difference in handling among
gliders was "fairly small". And this just isn't so.