On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 1:34:18 AM UTC-4, Johnny T wrote:

So I have decided to give myself a dream vacation. I have 6 straight days of lessons at Minden in a ASK-21 - it's ok if you are jealous! Is this the right way to do it? I don't know... but being super busy, I feel like finally getting the vacation of my dreams is something I can't turn down.

1) Here is the thing... my local club (back on the east coast) uses a 2-33 as their trainer. I am a little uneasy about the transition from the K-21 back to the 2-33. I mean, I do hold some sentimental value with the 2-33, but I kinda want to move on. The club also has a Grob 103 Twin II - however, they no longer use this for training. Hmmm... Advice on this transition would be very helpful.

i've done most of my glider training in multi-day trips as well (including Minden, which is outstanding), in the K-21, Grob-103, and LET-23, but finished up and took the commercial checkride in the 2-33. All of the checkride flying will be very close to the airport, so glide ratio/performance isn't much of a consideration. That being said, the examiner asked me to make back-to-back left and right 720 steep turns, the last of which left me below where I needed to enter the pattern, so shame on me, but he didn't bust me for it because I called it out (even though I should not have made the last 360). The moral is, even if you're within easy gliding distance of the airport, you still have watch the sink in a low-performance plane.

--b