"When DOES the Arcus earn its keep? "

In a difficult early stage of my task this afternoon with weak climbs, I was embarassed that in my Arcus M (at 750kg) I was struggling to keep up with a less experienced if very promising pilot in a Cirrus. Later in the day, the Cirrus landed in a field and I completed my task satisfactorily.

The Arcus handles like a modern 18m glider, and performs more or less like one except in very strong or very weak conditions. It is also the best handling two seater (I hope I won't become jealous when the ASG32 and Twin Shark are available in the market). Nobody would suggest buying any of these gliders if you did not want a two seater.

Is it good value? Well, you could have just as much 2 seat fun in a K7. When asked about the cost of gliding, I always say that you can have as much fun in a glider you buy for $10k as in a $400k supership, and that people spend as much on their gliders as they want to. I enjoy the feeling that I have the best of its particular type and I guess that's why I spent the money..

Mark Burton, flying an Arcus M and an ASH 26E from London Gliding Club, UK.

On Friday, 19 July 2013 10:47:45 UTC+1, Wolf Aviator wrote:
Hi ladies and gents,



Here is a video made by Sebastian Kawa on ECG 2013 at Ostrów in

Poland.



This video presents final glide of his Discus 2a wing to wing with

Arcus flying at 200km/h. As you can see at this speed performance

of 20m span glider is no better than 15m Discus 2a.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xrDLQ61474



quote (1m 8s of video):

"A why they're buying such expensive gliders...".

Regards

Wolf

http://youtube.com/user/WolfTheAviator