Cup holder

Has anyone installed a cup holder on their glider? Pictures?

I used 1quart Gatorade bottles, until they downsized.
Camelback is a great, easy to do, option.

BTW, I sometimes used the empty bottles as a relief place, but didn't drop over the side.
Paid to use "Hawaiian punch" bottles so the fluid color didn't mess anyone up later......LOL.....
(Yeh, don't do mango or similar......) ;-)

On Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 1:37:18 PM UTC-7, wrote:
Has anyone installed a cup holder on their glider? Pictures?

You mean the co-pilot?

On Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 4:37:18 PM UTC-4, wrote:
Has anyone installed a cup holder on their glider? Pictures?

What I need is a place to keep my chopsticks (for the Sushi) clean when I am busy landing out . . .
ROY

....And your Grey Pupon?

On 10/20/2017 12:37 PM, Roy B. wrote:
On Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 4:37:18 PM UTC-4, wrote:
Has anyone installed a cup holder on their glider? Pictures?
What I need is a place to keep my chopsticks (for the Sushi) clean when I am busy landing out . . .
ROY

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Dan, 5J

At an important contest many years ago--before we all started using flexible water containers with drinking tubes--my mother/crew prepared my sandwich (this was also WAY before energy bars) and a 16 oz. Tupperware cup with a plastic snap-on lid full of Coke and ice cubes. I wedged it down by my side to keep it upright.

I almost lost it at 5,000 ft. on course when B-O-O-O-O-M!!!!--the top blew off from the combined effects of carbonation and reduced air pressure. OK, maybe it only seemed that loud because there was no warning. In any case, Coke went everywhe on me, on the cockpit walls, on the instrument panel, but mostly up on the inside of the canopy. Try wiping off sugary soda with the paper napkin that was previously wrapped around a peanut butter sandwich.

Yeah, I can see the utility of cup holders, but only if they have some sort of safety lock.

Chip Bearden

Some day, over a beer, I'll tell everyone the Legend of Charlie
PeePee...Â* Many Black Forest pilots who have flown at Creede will know
what I'm talking about.

On 10/20/2017 3:07 PM, wrote:
At an important contest many years ago--before we all started using flexible water containers with drinking tubes--my mother/crew prepared my sandwich (this was also WAY before energy bars) and a 16 oz. Tupperware cup with a plastic snap-on lid full of Coke and ice cubes. I wedged it down by my side to keep it upright.

I almost lost it at 5,000 ft. on course when B-O-O-O-O-M!!!!--the top blew off from the combined effects of carbonation and reduced air pressure. OK, maybe it only seemed that loud because there was no warning. In any case, Coke went everywhe on me, on the cockpit walls, on the instrument panel, but mostly up on the inside of the canopy. Try wiping off sugary soda with the paper napkin that was previously wrapped around a peanut butter sandwich.

Yeah, I can see the utility of cup holders, but only if they have some sort of safety lock.

Chip Bearden

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Dan, 5J

A few years back I was flying with a Camelback with its spout that you pinch in your mouth to let the water out. Somehow that spout got caught under me, and by the time I noticed anything I was already sitting in a tub of water. "Fly the airplane"... Since then I've added the valve Camelback offers, to shut off any possible flow while I am not drinking. Perhaps should also drill a drain hole in the seat pan?

You are not the first to sit on a bite valve and get wet. The twist valve is critical. Installing Camelbak hose mounting clips onto the side of the fuselage also helps.

Had a toaster oven in my glider for inflight reheating of meatball sandwiches, was a hassle. Easy now, I just toss them on the transponder.