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Leasing Sailplanes?
Hello,
Some college friends and I have been flying sailplanes with the eventual goal of getting into competition soaring. This would not be for a while, but we were wondering if it is common to find competition sailplanes available for lease during a season? If so, what is a 'typical' cost range? Unfortunately the club and commercial operation near us do not have any racing class aircraft available. Any advise you may have for how we can eventually make our way into the competition side of things is greatly appreciated! Thanks! - Ian D. |
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Leasing Sailplanes?
Ian D wrote:
Hello, Some college friends and I have been flying sailplanes with the eventual goal of getting into competition soaring. This would not be for a while, but we were wondering if it is common to find competition sailplanes available for lease during a season? If so, what is a 'typical' cost range? Unfortunately the club and commercial operation near us do not have any racing class aircraft available. Any advise you may have for how we can eventually make our way into the competition side of things is greatly appreciated! Thanks! - Ian D. county? State? Flight experience? What do you consider racing class? - any particular actual class? How many friends? Why not buy a shared glider? Darryl |
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Leasing Sailplanes?
On 9/20/11 3:14 PM, Darryl Ramm wrote:
Ian wrote: Hello, Some college friends and I have been flying sailplanes with the eventual goal of getting into competition soaring. This would not be for a while, but we were wondering if it is common to find competition sailplanes available for lease during a season? If so, what is a 'typical' cost range? Unfortunately the club and commercial operation near us do not have any racing class aircraft available. Any advise you may have for how we can eventually make our way into the competition side of things is greatly appreciated! Thanks! - Ian D. county? State? Flight experience? What do you consider racing class? - any particular actual class? How many friends? Why not buy a shared glider? Darryl That was supposed to be "Country" -- presumably the USA, but don't make us guess. And the obvious answer at least in the USA is owners with well equipped racing gliders will not want to lease them out. Or that occasional ones like I have heard of almost end up as short-term partnerships with large risk/cost assumptions from the renter/lessee. Most owners would not lease their glider to anybody but highly experienced pilots. "I want to rent your glider to fly my first contests" would scare most sane owners away. You need a very supportive club or an owners syndicate or find somebody with a Duo or similar and try some two seater racing to try things out. The sports class offers a wide possibility in what you can get started with. Darryl |
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