From: ZASoars
Don't you wish you had a 46:1 L/D glider to fly ?
Well why not get yourself checked out to fly the Grob 103 !
Yesterday Jack Hensel and I took the Grob for a cross country flight
up north in Indiana to Huntington and back . The conditions were good
but not great , meaning that we got to 5000msl a couple of times and
the climb rate in thermals for the whole flight was 2.2 knots average
( Thermal strengths were as Dr Jack predicted - around 4 - 5 knots max
) .
BUT by using cloud streets and flying conservatively we covered over
90 miles at an average L/D of 46 : 1 . ( Quite a bit better than the
published L/D of 38 : 1 ). We have a great glider in our club to learn
to fly cross country in !
ZA.
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