kinsell wrote on 2/25/2021 6:49 AM:
On 2/24/21 9:22 PM, Eric Greenwell wrote:
Dave Nadler wrote on 2/24/2021 6:08 PM:
On 2/24/2021 8:55 PM, kinsell wrote:
On 2/24/21 4:13 PM, Dave Nadler wrote:
On 2/24/2021 4:51 PM, Darryl Ramm wrote:
On Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 1:42:01 PM UTC-8, wrote:
https://insideevs.com/news/490300/hy...ll-82000-bevs/
Discuss amongst yourselves...

Dave, it's time for you to stop complaining and just admit electric is simple.

You're absolutely right Darryl!
After all, how hard could it be???

Simple and ultra reliable.* You gonna be dragging your old faithful Antares down to the
Seniors this year?

After it failed during the last two comps I took it to?
Drive for days, fly a few times, then drive for days home after it breaks?
I don't think so...

Anyway, no vaccination yet so no travel in any case.

The Antares was a bold effort, perhaps too bold, and by now, it's an old effort. No point in
holding it up as an example anymore. Now, all the manufacturers have electric gliders, and
Solo has added electric systems to their sailplane power business. Electric isn't the coming
thing any mo it's here. The next milestone will be passed when they start selling more
electrics than ICEs.


I see another Silent 2 just popped up on the market, that makes four plus one recently sold.
Garret suggests you might want to aerotow or winch launch to conserve battery power.* When I
see these things with a dozen hours on them up for sale, it suggests that the owners aren't
that thrilled with what they got for their money.

It would be instructive to discuss the reasons with the people selling the Silents. My only
contact with one is Jeff Banks' Silent. We flew together for a week out of Richfield, UT, last
year. He likes it, self-launched every flight, and had good flights. He also flew out of Heber,
Nephi and Dick Stout airfields in 2020. You can check the OLC for his flights in 2018, 2019 and
2020. Also, 2021 - first flight of the year at Seminole.

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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me)
- "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation"
https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...ad-the-guide-1