All the "Closet" Sailplane Pilots please come forward!!!

[Pro1Foam]

	Quote: Originally Posted by pitviper51
	theres gotta be more hiding out there, open up a bit .... mike

Damn it, OK I LIKE GLIDERS!

I said it are you happy!

Nothing like sitting back in the ole JR lawn chair, relaxed, and enjoying a little draft (up draft not the liquid stuff, duh). Mmmm, happy thoughts....draft...mmmmm...morning wood...

Later yall

[pitviper51]

hi my name is mike and im an addict hahaha, welcome to the club,, it seems my club is gaining glider folks, i know i get more flyign on my alula then anyting else,, i can truly just walk in the back yard and fly 40 times... and no hassle with motors, and usually my transmitter battery dies before the glider.. heheh great lil plane, my 2m is fun to.. haha
mike
ps iv seen improved my launching skill hehe

[pitviper51]

lookign at the view count in this forum i know there more glider flyers when what we know so far.... come on out! hehehe
mike

[Uncle Brett]

Been flying gliders now for over 30 years, mostly slope. Nothing like slope combat with foamy wings with a half dozen of your friends. I do still have an old scale Carrera Mistral (4.5 )meter that I bought back in 1980.

[Aerotech]

Hello,

Im a closet full scale wanna be soon. I have 3 hours in a Grob 103 and Im going to get my cross over this summer.

Later

JOhn

[pitviper51]

welcome to the club haha, those grobs are fun, my old club had one but i only got to fly it once... i was better withit then to ask13 .. kinda the differnce between a mooney and a piper cub haha go for it!
mike

[LJJ]

haha.... cool to see that there are some silent folks out there.... anyone into HLG stuff? The clubs been talking about doing some scratch build jobs over winter....

LJJ

[pitviper51]

keep the glider forum alive!!!! i have a dream flight alula that is a great light dlg,, and is as fun as it gets! lets see some pics!!
mike

[Jeff Pfeifer]

Sailplanes Rock! It is a completely different skill set than 3D and no two flights are ever the same. Here is a link to a short DLG vid of me.

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showa...mentid=1557530

[dbcaster]

Slope flying for me. I have a LEG P51, an old Sparrow, and a Carbon 2M Blade. We fly at Goat Rock on the Northern California coast. It is one of the best flying sites around with a pretty constant 15 to 25 mph wind. I have flown my LEG in 30-40 gusting to 50mph wind loaded with 22 oz. of extra led. One of the guys that I fly with has had his Opus up to 258 mph on the radar gun on the backside DS'ing. For those that have not seen DS'ing once you see it you will want to do it

[pitviper51]

i cant get over how vilent dlgs are haha, i always wait for a wing to rip off.. unfortuneatly theres no good slopes close to home , so dlg and thermal-electrics are the common here, great video! make me want to rebuild the ole alula
mike

[exciter900rr]

Nothing wrong with sailplanes at all- started flying r/c on 'em... 21 years ago..... at the moment, I'm in to .55 glow with a ucd.46, I fly r/c heli's with a trex 450, I just bought a 28% gasser from tom @ Wild Hare r/c, and I have a couple of gliders.. hehe.. pss f-86 on the board, old chzek bd-4 pusher prop converted to pss, the sister ship to an ama record holding speed ship from the early 90's late 80's, two combat wings, and a 1/4 or 1/5 scale salto fuse that REALLY needs to be built!! I guess I have more gliders than power..... got a few national records standing still from them, so they are good for something!!