ASW 24B or DG 303 Acro?

Have not flown the ASW 24B so I cannot compare!

Have flown the DG303Acro, DG 808S and ASW 28-18E

Flying a ASW20B in comps in November

Found this for you.

http://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/tm-300-e.html

Alexander Schleicher ASW 24

- Background information on the original -

The ASW 24 was designed by Schleicher's Gerhard Waibel, with Delft
University professor Loek Boermans undertaking the role of aerodynamicist.
The prototype made its first flight in 1987, having entered serial
production later the same year. It nominally remained in production until
2000, although only a score were built in the mid-to-late nineties.

It entailed a large development effort, as it was a complete departure from
the preceding ASW 19 and pioneered several successful innovations. The
fuselage, airfoils, wings and empennage were completely new, as well as many
systems, e.g. the electrical ballast management. The structure employed a
large amount of the then still exotic carbon fibre. The OSTIV Award-winning
safety cockpit made use of an organic shape, tall sidewalls, crumple zones
and exotic aramid fibres for crash protection. A large wheel with a disc
brake and a large canopy with excellent visibility were other strong points
of the type.

The ASW 24 was moderately successful in competitions. It won a single World
Championship in 2001, fourteen years after its market launch. As the
contemporary LS7, the ASW 24 overstretched the technology available at the
time: it has excellent performance in the cruise but less so in the slow
flight range. The higher-than-usual thermalling speed revealed itself a
disadvantage in the typical competition gaggles, and its performance
degrades significantly when subject to turbulence, rain or wing
contamination.

According to World Champion Sarah Steinberg, it needs to be always
proactively flown in thermals, thus imposing a higher workload upon the
pilot. Notwithstanding, the aesthetically pleasing ASW 24 is a comfortable,
safe and pleasant sailplane with high cross-country performance that remains
competitive up to national championship level in most countries.

The fuselage of the ASW 24 was the basis, with small modifications, for the
subsequent ASW 27, ASW 28 and ASG 29. It was superseded in production by the
ASW 28.


Technical Data:

- Length 6.55 m
- Height 1.3 m
- Wingspan 15 m
- Wing area 10.00 m²
- Empty weight ca. 230 kg
- Water ballast 155 kg (ASW 24)
160 kg (ASW 24B)
- Maximum take off 500 kg
- Wing loading ca. 31.0 - 50.0 kg/m²
- Minimum sink rate ca. 0.55 m/s at 31 kg/m²
- Best glide ratio ca. 43 (ASW 24)
ca. 44 (ASW 24B)