Motorgliders - bragging rights

An even better question would be where on the hero
list do they go when they don't get away with it and
have no back up plan in place? I know where some have
gone and I don't want to go there just yet!

At 20:12 25 September 2003, Tom Serkowski wrote:

So where on your 'hero
list' would you put the 'pure' sailplane pilot who
pushed on into
unlandable terrain and got away with it?

-Tom
ASH-26E (5Z)

I just started to fly motorglider this autumn. It's just a Falke
(touring motorglider) so not the same system what was mentioned in the
previous mails. BUT I find myself more and more in situations where I
wouldn't be with stdCirrus I generally fly. It has much less performance
(l/d ~ 22, wmin ~ 1m/s) than the cirrus but trust in the engine I fly
far from the safe gliding distances. It seems I'm not alone with this
"bad" habit... Most of the pilots are touring on 5-600m without
continuously checking landable fields where average glider pilot already
started to plan landing.
Of course with this plane you don't have to open or close engine bay
doors and open the engine, just push one button to start the engine.

/Janos

Eric, you have the patience of Jobe in dealing with
these infidel's. There will always be a special place
for you in ASA. When their smoke belching tow planes
are but only a memory we will be soaring the great
basin together!
'Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty,
we are free at
last!'