On Apr 26, 3:13*pm, Walt Connelly Walt.Connelly.
wrote:
I have seen a number of glider advertised and most tell you the total
time. *Unlike a powered airplane which has a tach or a Hobbs meter,
gliders seldom have any built in way to determine the actually time on
the air frame. *While people might try to inflate their personal flying
time, I would not be surprised if many of these gliders are low balling
their actual air frame time which I presume has a lifetime limit in one
way or another. *Is there any reasonably foolproof/accurate way to
determine the true time on an airframe? *I cant think of one.

Walt

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Walt Connelly

All the time I have logged in my ASW-28 is supported by electronic
flight logs with a 2 second sample interval. I log my flight time and
the glider usage to the nearest minuted based on those flight logs.

Glider flight history is typically recorded as number of launches or
starts, and total flight time. If you were in the market to buy mine
I could provide complete and accurate records including all the
electronic flight logs. Do you have $80K looking for a good home?

Andy