On Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 8:11:54 PM UTC-7, Bruce Hoult wrote:
On Sunday, November 19, 2017 at 6:00:34 AM UTC+3, Clemens Ceipek wrote:
What helped me a lot, though, was practicing on the Condor Soaring simulator before I started for real. If you go that route you have to get rudder pedals so you practice coordination.

Condor is great. At our club if time & manpower permits we put trial flight people into a real glider cockpit (from a crashed Cirrus) with Condor hooked to the real controls and a huge TV for a few minutes. It improves what they get out of a 15 or 20 minute initial flight a lot.

For myself at home, I find that a gaming joystick with twist for the rudder works fine, both for turn coordination in the air and things like dealing with crosswinds on the ground.

I visited a club recently with one of the Mach 0.1 setups. At least a couple of the instructors are using it with students. $8US/hour for the simulator, which seems a sensible price when you think about it.

Frank Whiteley