13.5 Meter World Championships

On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 6:15:10 PM UTC-4, Al McNamara wrote:
Why have a FES in a GP14 when you could have the retractable electric
self-launcher version - and forego the extra drag and ugliness of the
prop
moustache?

Speed of starting.

Looking forward to someone using FES recover to recover from a premature termination of tow.

On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 11:15:10 PM UTC+1, Al McNamara wrote:
Why have a FES in a GP14 when you could have the retractable electric
self-launcher version - and forego the extra drag and ugliness of the
prop
moustache?

Speed of starting.

But speed of starting is irrelevant for self launching and for self-retrieving speed of starting is a tiny factor compared with probability of starting which, for any with well designed and maintained electric powered glider, will be a near certainty.

On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 4:00:10 AM UTC+10, Kevin Neave wrote:
My ideal glider would be something with Discus performance & FES.
Many of the pilots in my club fly Discus / LS4 performance gliders, or
lower performance club class.

The GP14 claims to have mid 40s performance, as does the original Discus.
If there was a FES option I'd seriously consider it.

The problem with the PW5 was it had no performance & was ugly as sin.

KN

At 15:07 29 July 2015, Gliding Guru wrote:
Why would anyone spend money on a 13.5 glider? Big mistake of the IGC t
permit the class. Even bigger mistake of the Manufacturers to buil
something for it. Glorified PW5's and we all know how that ended!



Sounds like the GP14 isn't going to make it... That's going to mix up the results somewhat!

Enough thread drift already. How the heck is it going for Team USA?

XF

Going good Lane! I flew yesterday, a short local soaring flight. Took a tow behind a Wilga (They have a bunch of them here), and used FES a couple times to find lift under solid overcast.

Gliders here so far are a handful of Silent Electro, a Silent Targa, Sparrowhawk R, the Mini LAK (built across the street from Pociunai), a sawed down Diana 2, and the Russia AC-4D.

We've been posting as much as we can on our blog including a bunch of pictures from yesterday. Today and Tomorrow are the final practice days. I flew with my IGCDroid program runnig yesterday and my flight showed up well on Glideport.aero!

IGC has enough trackers here that the entire field should be carrying trackers each day. I assume the contest tracking page should be available through the contest website...www.wgc2015.lt

We all hope the GP14 can get here for some or all of the contest. We want to see how it shapes up against the other gliders in the class, and they have put SO much work into trying to have it ready it would be a shame if it couldn't fly here.


Blog is https://ussoaringteam2015lithuania.wordpress.com

Why would anyone spend money on a 13.5 glider? Big mistake of the IGC to
permit the class. Even bigger mistake of the Manufacturers to build
something for it. Glorified PW5's and we all know how that ended!

hi there,
I'd like to see the sawed down diana. Thanks to post a picture in your blog, if you have a chance, and I wish you good weather for the next 2 weeks
Philipp

Good results (2nd and 3rd) for team USA on the first competition day although the "sawed down Diana" ;-) earned a nearly 100 point advantage. Unfortunately, the pace of development in this new 13.5m class gives the latest designs significant advantages. Considering that I think the U.S. Team had an amazing first day.

Good to see a real racing task (assigned task) called on day 1.

Huge bummer that Sabastain Kawa was not able to attend in the new GP14.

RESULTS: http://www.soaringspot.com/en_gb/135...15-08-02/daily

Technically..tied for second. It was a really good team flight on a blue day. More tomorrow!

On Sunday, August 2, 2015 at 10:17:48 AM UTC-7, Tony wrote:
Technically..tied for second. It was a really good team flight on a blue day. More tomorrow!

A wonderful start. Keep it up!
Jim