On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 05:36:30 -0700 (PDT), cuflyer
wrote:

Hello All,

I am looking for real world reviews of the Puchacz (or the newer Perkoz)
in the club / instructional environment.
How do they hold up to daily use/abuse?
Maintenance issues?
How are they for ab-initio?
Truth to the spin-eager rep?
Any bad habits?

Just a small addition since the same topic is just being discussed in
the German gliding board segelflug.de.


Since August of 2009, five letal accidents of Puchacz gliders with
nine people being killed an one injured badly.

Each time an instructor was on board.

http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=137025
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-0...cident/3925952
http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=144869
http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=146849
http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=137365
http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=68075

Note that nearly all accident reports contain the word "spin" or
"stall".

Google "puchacz accident" - there's hardly a year where there was not
a Puchacz accident that killed both student and instructor.

Draw your own conclusions.


Andreas