For young people a gliding club is a great place to do some of the
growing they need to do.
Not just flying
Its team work and responsibility and a whole new group to make
friends among.
If he is lucky there will be others of a similar age .
You can't control your Kids life but you can point them in the right
direction.
A gliding club is a good direction to point him.




At 16:12 05 January 2020, Brian wrote:




The issue with initial training in a motor glider is the complexity.
There
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are a lot of system to learn and then to learn how to deal with the
failure=
modes of those systems. It would be kind of like trying to learn
how to
fl=
y both the towplane and the glider as opposed to just learning to fly
one
o=
r the other.

Club operations generally are great for low cost at the price of time
commi=
tment. The social aspect is also a bit benefit of clubs.

Commercial operations are much better for learning with the least
time
comm=
itment, but of course cost more.
Many operations are very good at accelerated training where you
can stay
th=
ere for a couple weeks and complete the training. But do your
homework and
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get some recommendations.

A hybrid approach would be to start your son with some power
training,
whic=
h probably is available locally. The Age limit only applies to soloing,
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t to receiving training. But especially if he got 15-20 hours in a
tailwhee=
l airplane (tri-gear would be ok), would get him to where he was
about
read=
y to solo and he would develop most of the skills needed to fly a
glider.
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hen spend a week or so at a commercial operation to get his glider
rating.

Brian
CFIIG/ASEL