Edward Lockhart wrote:


I noticed one thing: The ASK-21 in your video has 'braces'
(Dunno what they
are properly called) inside the canopy that those of
my future club don't
seem to have:


I believe that's a Dutch regulation designed to protect
the pilot from unseen power/phone wires on final or
wire fences after touchdown.

It used to be mandatory, but that regulation has been dropped a couple of
years ago. Main protection is against (barbed) wire fences, not against
power or phone lines (these are allmost all underground here).

André