Any Gliders in the House?

I've tried flying small Cessna type planes, they were a yawn experience
(1) and small helicopters, they made me slightly nauseous (and poor) but
for some reason I never thought seriously about Gliding, until now. I
guess the need for uplift seemed even more hassle than in parachuting. I
should really try it before knocking it and in particular reading about
Motor Gliders caught my interest.

Any recommendations and advice on getting started and for a club in the
Leeds/York area.

(1) I'm happy to admit a Red Bull type biplane or Mig would spark new
interest (and poverty)

 

Aren't they just planes? WRT the rest of it, I think Wizard (or
somebody) organised a gliding thing a while ago. He might know.

 

I bought Clare a voucher for a trial lesson, which she used last
weekend. It included one month's membership of the club, so she can go
along any time and fly at members' rates, which seem to be very reasonable.

I suspect most clubs will have something similar.

 

Can't help with your quest but I thoroughly enjoyed the gliding I did
whilst in the ATC in my youth. I went on to hang gliding until a
motorcycling injury left me with a weak knee so I couldn't actually
run down the hill at Baildon Moor with enough conviction for a good
launch (wind got me and turned me back into the hill!). I still have
a Solar Wings Typhoon in the garage

 

Motorgliders (Grob, for one) are normally self launching group a planes. You
need a full PPL for the thing. But, and the good part comes here, if you
know how to glide (properly) and have good thermals etc, you can really go
places, cheaply!
Take off, climb to atlitude, shut-off engine glide down, catch a thermal,
gain lift on thermal to altitude again and off you go. Just start the negine
if you can't find a thermal and carry on. All logable hours even with the
fan turned off.

Pocklington! Nice pub nearby as well.

HTH
--
Greybeard

FLHTCUI UK-07 Mk II
Trumpet Trophy 1200 new one coming soon!
Garmin Zumo 550, To get me home!

ukrm@foxtails[dot]co[dot]uk

 

Ah excellent thanks. Handy for the Madhyamaka centre too. I feel a
weekend trip coming on soon. What's best for a trial run, Winch. Aerotow
or Motorglider?

 

Motorglider if you get the chance. You can then stay up for as long as your
lesson lasts.
Otherwise it doesn't really matter, you're at the mercy of gravity!

--
Greybeard

FLHTCUI UK-07 Mk II
Trumpet Trophy 1200 new one coming soon!
Garmin Zumo 550, To get me home!

ukrm@foxtails[dot]co[dot]uk

 

And thermals.

My brother is a qualified gliding instructor and has a share in a motor
glider (yes, he also has a PPL). You have a lot more independence with a
motor glider. He flies from Storrington in West Sussex. I'm hoping for a
trial lesson in the next few weeks, though as his MG is a single-seater,
the lesson will be in one of the two-seaters at his club and that's likely
to be a winch or aerotow job, so you may not get a choice in your trial
run. Seeing a picture of bruv's motor glider I was amazed how the motor
can fold down into the fuselage. It looks far too big to fit in, and I'm
sure it can't be left deployed because of the drag.

 

A lot of the smaller MG's do have retractable prop blades etc. But a number
of 2 seater models, like the Grob
(http://webusers.warwick.net/~u1007204/motor_glider1/index.html), as
previously mentioned leave the blades (IIRC) and can easily be started when
needed.
We used to have one of these on the field where I fly,a and it was bloody
pain to follow in to land as it's approach speed was well below that of a
"proper" plane! it also took ages to taxi off the active runway.
The guys that flew had a great time with it though because the cost/flying
hour could be extremely low.

--
Greybeard

FLHTCUI UK-07 Mk II
Trumpet Trophy 1200 new one coming soon!
Garmin Zumo 550, To get me home!

ukrm@foxtails[dot]co[dot]uk

 

There used to be (probably still is) a club in Selby for gliding.



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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Yeah, we're all experts with about 15 minutes experience down here

A glider's like a cessna without the exciting bits

 

A Cessna's a bit like a plane innit?


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

The Scottish parachute club had a single engine Cessna. It was mildly
exciting, in the main part due to to the right hand doors being removed ;o)

 

Yebbut was it a 206 with a rear door or a 1xx with a door/step exit?
The latter were fun 'cos you had to climb out onto the step and hold
onto the strut.

 

Side door, no step, high wing

 

Strut or cantilever?

 

Do I look like an aeronautical engineer?

 

This is a Cessna 210 with a strutted wing:

http://www.stinsonflyer.com/prop/ce210-01.jpg

and this is a Cessna 210 with a cantilevered wing:

http://www.atlantic-aero.com/aeromod/headers-c210/550-P_inflightB.jpg

 

Cantilevered wing it was.
Nothing to snag on helping a nice clean exit.

 

Unlike, say, one of these:

http://www.flug-revue.rotor.com/FRTypen/Fotos/adam/A500FF.jpg