Motor gliders

[Razor_B]

Huggy, you already fly the best motorglider at work, ain't that enough for ya'? Hey, I hear you've got a checkride coming up. Good luck

 

[Huggyu2]

Hah! My wife was looking (i.e. spying) over my shoulder, and wants to know my someone on the internet knows that I have a checkride, but she doesn't. I told her to go back and finish the dishes. Guess I'll be sleeping in the back of my pickup.
I hear my checkpilot is a harda##! Cheers!!
BTW: at this point, depending on what the docs say, I treat every flight as a fini.

Hey, I just noticed that was your first post!! I'm honored!!!

 

[MJG]

One of our club members has a Stemme as well as another regular glider, must be nice. He mostly flies the Stemme though. I think it soars pretty well. I spent about 10 minutes sharing a thermal today with his Stemme just off my wing the whole time. He had no problem staying up with me in the Blanik that I was in. Nothing like chasing another glider round and round seeing who can get the most out of mother nature.

 

[Prof. ATP]

For those of you with experience in these, it seems that many of them are more "powered airplane" than motor glider, like the long-wing Diamond Xtreme. If you've flown a few of these aircraft, please comment on the
one(s) that you know of.

Alexander Schleicher makes some truly high performance motorgliders. Check out <http://www.alexander-schleicher.de/produkte/asg29/e_asg29_main.htm>. People regularly take these into the flight levels during strong wave conditions.

 

[dav8or]

Van has been working on a kit M/G, The RV-11
http://www.vansaircraft.com/public/rv-11int.htm