El jueves, 8 de octubre de 2020 a las 12:00:07 UTC+2, Peter F escribió:
So you're spending 150k Euro on your glider then trying to save a few Euro
per launch on the tow?

The climb rate of a FES glider easily beats the traditional Turbos but do
you really want to use up the limited duration of the batteries in this
phase of the flight?

You'd be better off taking the higher tow & saving the FES for the retrieve
if needed.
Or take the lower tow & soar

PF
At 22:27 07 October 2020, JM LN wrote:
Hi everybody.
I would like to know the opinion of a owner of a HPH Shark with FES.
Which is the true climb rate?.
Somebody has proven to use FES like a supplement tow mechanism?. I mean,
how efficient is take a tow to 300 or 400 m and later start FES to climb
at
900 or 1000 m.

Thank you very much.

Juan.

Thank you Peter.
The idea is not to take a tow and release early.
Now I have a turbo discus and all my tow are at 500 or 600 m, but if the day is weak and lose the fisrt thermal when I start the turbo at 300 m I usually can not climb. Whe this happen the zone near the aerodrome is dead even you find descendet air and usually the mountain works, but it is a litle far away. I was thinking in this kind of situation. If I will move to a FES glider I want to be sure it can climb at 2m/s, and you can travel to the mountain gaining height.
Regards.