On Sunday, November 24, 2013 6:58:18 AM UTC-5, wrote:
Anyone flown one? Is it good for early cross country flying??

Since the CS stands for Club Standard I expect that many people flown Grob G102 Astir CS.

You can look up gliders on Wikipedia to get a general idea of what they are designed to do and deduce a lot from the specs.

You can find the accident history of the type at http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/index.aspx Search for Grob G102 will return more reports than searching on Astir CS. If you look at "probable cause" you will get some idea about the types of accidents that people have (for example, whether the glider is prone to enter spins.)

You can search Soaring magazine archives for articles about specific glider types.