GREYEAGLE
Key Veteran
Location: Sioux City IA
My Posts This: Topic Forum | Sailplanes / Not GlidersSailplanes : Let's see : serveral Oly II's, Aquila Grande, Sagitta's 900, 600, XC,
3 BOT's - two Mark's Model version, newone is a DYnoflite, One Sailaire 14' with turbulators and spoileres, countless, Drifters and GentalLadys, one carbon and glass quasor, Several hand Launchers.
Some of the best times in my life, Eagle snatching my 126" Aquila, a 70 mph 4.7mile run with a cross country, Hand launching one of the BOT's and hooking a hat sucker, Having a battery go dead on a OLY II ,and chase it for over a hour to get it back, flying non stop at 9' off the ground in the dark off ground layer. Circling with eagles letting them find the lift, Finding lift in a rain storm- stories go on and on.
Pure speed too- can't touch a good wet ship ballested up.
For basics if you want to learn to hook up to a thermal, turn toward the wing that bumps up " lift side "and punch your way in with a bit of down. To get down learn to roll up side down, or loop and stay up sire down with full down elevator then roll out. Don't smoke the wing's off if you get into a dive. Those cool bressezes you feel comming out of nowhere at the field are sink filling the void left from the thermal. |
