On Friday, September 27, 2019 at 5:55:54 PM UTC-7, son_of_flubber wrote:
Air France ATP cadets are training in gliders at Saint-Auban

https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comm...during_my_atp/

The person that made the Reddit post logged 30 hours of glider time and earned his glider license.

An article from DG says the program will train up to 80 cadets a year and provide each cadet 50 flights. The training includes basic aerobatics and recovery of dangerous flight situations.

https://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/en/dg-...services/17922

That is encouraging. I am licensed to fly gliders, helicopters and airplanes. My glider training and experience has taught me more about flying than anything I ever did in an airplane. I used to own and fly a war bird and pressured twin. I used my glider training all the time while flying a helicopter in the mountains. In my humble opinion, there is no single activity that makes better pilots than flying gliders.