On Monday, July 18, 2016 at 12:16:32 PM UTC-4, JS wrote:
Apparently the new Stemme S12 has a great handicap.
A fantastic selling point for Stemme.
Jim

It's about time.

I mean, we've all been hearing for years how much of a gliding performance handicap these poor motorglider pilots have, lugging around a big ole engine all day....

The old Stemme S-10 has the same OLC handicap as my ASW-20 (110.0) -- hardly fair since in addition to the engine it also has an extra 25 FEET of wingspan to lug around. So the 10x improvement in the S12 handicap (11.0) could be seen as overdue.

Or maybe it's just a slipped decimal place :-).

-Evan