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Is gliding becoming too expensive?

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Unfortunately. New gliders are very expensive. You need to have tons of ... Flight of any kind is expensive, and I had to wait many years to be able to ...

Parachute Use - Jump Training

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Last year I attended the convention and listened to an excellent presentation by a pilot who, along with his co-pilot, had bailed out of a very nice, expensive, ...

The decline of gliding - a worldwide issue?

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... pilots, gliding will become more expensive and less accessible. But ... training pilots so that in WW2 they had people who could fly planes. During ...

Instructor shutting engine off in flight

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As a student you're training to be pilot in command. That includes learning to ... > you are already as good as dead that makes such training so valuable.

Fundraiser by Janae Smith : Help Janae live out her dreams to ...

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Aug 8, 2022 ... Unfortunately, flight school is even more expensive than college institutions. ... So, I recently took my checkride (aka the "drivers test ...

Auto-Towing - why is this not more popular?

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around 50% higher for a given runway length using a winch. Ther may be occasions, such as on expeditions, when auto-tow is expedient but for regular training ...

PPL on tricycle or taildragger?

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So now he's a mediocre Cub pilot too. So how's a mediocre Cub pilot going to do on ... > >trike will make you a worse pilot than training in tailwheel is a

Open Discussion; Creating XC pilots

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reassembly at the airport), a whopping two or so road miles from the training ... very expensive by comparison to other gliders. They can also get you home ...

Connecticut Soaring Center

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Would a NZ student pilot license be accepted as equivalent? > and ... Flying can be very expensive. You either have to find a club (glider or ...

Pawnee PA-25 for Towing

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designed as a working plane. It has very good flight characteristics, visibility, and performance. As far as pilot training goes, we make sure out tow pilots ...

Glider License to Power

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airplanes are intended for straight & level flight ;-). Cons: - Cost; - You'll end up towing which will cut into your glider flying; - It ain't soaring so ...

SGS 2-33 VS Blanik L-23; maintenance issues

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The L23 is a very easy glider to fly. In fact, doing basic training in the L23 allowed us to transition pilots into glass a hell of a lot quicker.. Bill ...

Maule M4 - Info Request

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So, if you're talented enough to balance a broom on your finger, with a ... flight training in it. We flew that critter from the Arctic Ocean to. Baja ...

FAA to ground 80% of Glider Training Fleet... it's just a question of ...

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Apr 4, 2013 ... ... very expensive. The full design, molds, production tooling ... In over 50 years of aviation, I've yet to see a training aircraft so

Experience towing a Grob-103 with a 160HP tow Plane?

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As for tow pilot training in these circumstances, you just have to make sure ... Super expensive to run but very short time on tow with that thing.

I'd Be More Inspired If It Was Me In The Seat (Updated) - AVweb

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Sep 19, 2021 ... Isaacman has a taste for the high-end, expensive thrill ride and Inspiration4 may be the penultimate. (So far.) The exact cost of this trip is ...

How do we inspire pilots to truly take up cross country soaring ?

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Of course once I bought my first glider so I could fly with this gang regularly, the learning curve grew dramatically. The hook set deeper. And so on. Flying ...

Glider near miss with Airliner (emergency climb) near Chicago ...

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What inside s transponder makes it so expensive? Most of the time in gliding ... There are several airline pilots that are also glider pilots, so maybe they will ...