glider hours are nearly impossible to validate, especially in the US, you
can only rely on how well the records were kept and trust the owners to
properly keep records. I know most European gliders I've seen have had quite
elaborate record keeping as they should be.......here....not so
much......the good thing is that you really can't do much to wear out a
glider by flying unless you're pounding it on the ridge, racing and running
redline airspeeds in rough conditions or aerobatics..often when I see
comments like "record setting glider" or "proven contest record" this
implies it wasn't simply driven to church on Sundays by a little old lady
school teacher..Number of launches might even be more important.
There is an Glider Hour Counter available from Winter (I have these here)
that operates off of pitot pressure input but unless this was mandated as a
required instrument we are left with relying on the accuracy and
truthfulness of the owner/operator......much like "Damage History" and
"Recorded Damage History"
tim
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"Walt Connelly" wrote in message
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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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