On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 5:02:46 PM UTC-6, Charlie M. (UH & 002 owner/pilot) wrote:
On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 6:31:34 PM UTC-4, son_of_flubber wrote:
On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 6:15:10 PM UTC-4, Al McNamara wrote:
Why have a FES in a GP14 when you could have the retractable electric
self-launcher version - and forego the extra drag and ugliness of the
prop
moustache?

Speed of starting.

Looking forward to someone using FES recover to recover from a premature termination of tow.

I will assume we will see a "broken glider w/FES" from a PTT if they're NOT FLYING THE GLIDER.
Sorta like the guy (decades ago) that had a PTT (at a "famous site in the US") call his wife and say, "I'm going to crash!", just before he crashed.

I guess the "aviate" bit was lost on them.......

Hopefully, one can actually aviate and rotate one FES switch at the same time....