Last Friday at Sandhill Soaring Club I started the process of getting checked out in a Grob G-103.
In this picture you can almost see the club's Chief Flight Instructor John Harte, who rides a BMW R1200GS.
As I expected, the sleek G-103 (glide ratio 37:1) is waaaaaay more fun to fly than the boxy Schweizer 2-33 (glide ratio 23:1) I learned to fly at Arizona Soaring.
In this picture you can almost see the club's Chief Flight Instructor John Harte, who rides a BMW R1200GS.
As I expected, the sleek G-103 (glide ratio 37:1) is waaaaaay more fun to fly than the boxy Schweizer 2-33 (glide ratio 23:1) I learned to fly at Arizona Soaring.
It's like the difference between riding my BMW R60/6 and my R1100RS.
There are other even higher-performance gliders that would be more comparable to a K1300S!
There are other even higher-performance gliders that would be more comparable to a K1300S!
AZ Soaring also has G-103s in their fleet.
Flying a G-103 at Estrella, next time I get out there, will be an awesome experience.
There were days last spring at Estrella when I could barely find usable lift in a 2-33, which a G-103 (or, tbh, a better pilot) would have had no problem exploiting for thousands of feet of altitude gain.
And the scenery from high above Estrella is incomparably better than Michigan's flat expanses of farm and forest.
Flying a G-103 at Estrella, next time I get out there, will be an awesome experience.
There were days last spring at Estrella when I could barely find usable lift in a 2-33, which a G-103 (or, tbh, a better pilot) would have had no problem exploiting for thousands of feet of altitude gain.
And the scenery from high above Estrella is incomparably better than Michigan's flat expanses of farm and forest.
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