The 21 is awesome to slip and it works well. you shouldnt slip a LS4 for example but the ASK21 is perfect for it

@@eckiger4566 I'll have to try it on my next flight!

Yeah, Mark, it's an awesome place to fly, and where I learned. We have the spin weights at the club and it was super-cool to do that, though I'm not sure I would ever do it without the instructor in the back seat!

Yes - you're absolutely right, we had the tail weights attached for the spin training. It wasn't horrible or unpredictable in our case. At the Boulder Soaring club we also have a DG505 - I haven't done spin training in it.

The Spinning of the K13 isn't especially convincing, at least not when done with two people on board. Ours could do it with me in the front seat, back when I was close to the minimum weight, but it certainly preferred right spins, and was not so keen on doing it to the left. I cannot say how well it spins when flown solo, as I haven't tried that, but I don't find it particularly well suited to teach how to get out of a spin, as it basically does it on its own as soon as the instructor stops giving it pro-spin rudder input.

Hey Piotr, yes, we have ballast plates that we can add to the tail for this type of training!

@@greggdavis now I understand :)

Exactly!

Yeah, you need some space between you and the ground!

Hi Dave! Yeah, welcome! Soaring in Boulder is awesome, it's my 5th season, and I live up in Fairplay. Bob Faris is my instructor, and he's excellent. Best would be to come down to the club on a weekend morning and poke around and meet some folks. You will probably run into Bob on any morning, especially weekends. I did my research before I started on the other clubs around, and Boulder is the most active and has the best equipment. Also Boulder is the one that's closest to the mountains and so our playground is generally over the peaks.

@@greggdavis Gregg, thanks for the (very fast) reply. I've seen Bob's name pop up a few places already, and it seems like SSB has an active program. I'm hoping to get out there next weekend to check it out. Regards.

it's awesome, im learning to do it. I did a spin the other day, it was exhilarating!

Good noticing! We were practicing a forward slip, for the case that the air brakes are not working. slipping is ok, but skidding is not!

I was briefed on it a few days ago, it basically tells you how if your going up or down. If i remembered correctly- if the beeping goes up, it goes up.

Yes! Glider pilots wear parachutes in the unlikely case of a catastrophic failure in the glider or other issue, where we could bail out and survive.

It's a GoPro Max 360 camera. I like how it fixes to the position and the horizon.

Thanks!

Still getting 100 - 200 MBS consistently, with very few short outages, usually just a few seconds. I did plugin the Ethernet cable from the dish into my much stronger router, a Netgear Nighthawk, and now can get those speeds around the house and in the yard. The included wifi router has a weak signal.

As long as the weather allows; climbing on updrafts (thermals) in my area in Colorado, up to 8 hours or more. My longest flight is 5 hours so far.

Hi!

That was the GoPro included "head strap" mount that came with my GoPro 7. It's a stretchy strap that goes around the head and over the top, with a GoPro mount on the front. I wore it over my baseball hat, with the camera above the brim.

Two-seater in the pandemic

@@greggdavis What a joke lol. Aside from that, good video.

@@georgelindsay4371 it's not a joke. there's two people sitting in that small, cramped cockpit possibly for hours without good ventilation. masks are the only way to somewhat keep the risk down

@@nob0dy27_ Two people... facepalm. If you are that scared you should just get tested lol

In my first season I had the head mount, and I'm not that tall, so it would fit beneath the canopy. This video has the camera on my head. However, I now use a few different mounts to place the camera in a fixed location attached to the inside of the glider. In once case, there's a GoPro mount stuck to the side of the fuselage at about head level. I use a "gooseneck" adjustable mount from GoPro to bring the camera forward so my head's not in the shot. In the club's Discus I use a little velcro and place the camera on top of the panel, which has a velcro anti-glare covering.

Yes, that was intentional - we were practicing a forward slip to reduce lift without using the dive brakes. This was a training flight. As long as the non-aligned flight is slipping with the nose pointing to the outside of the turn, and not skidding, which is the opposite, it's safe. You're right, if it had been the other way , skidding a turn near the ground, that would have been dangerous. We practice slipping a turn on landing in case the dive brakes are ever frozen shut or not working.

Yes I mention the tail ballast that we used in other replies. The K21 has a purpose-built hole and through-bolt for the tail weights made for this purpose. It's at the base of the vertical.

Gregg Davis yes, I read that after I posted... Sorry... But as I’m not flying anymore and out of curiosity. Is that aft cg approved for normal flight? I would imagine that it would thermal and glide better with the aft cg... Im my days we had a “Rhönlerche” that woud spin at will and stay stable spinning which was great for training. even the K-13 would not spin stable

@@skydive1424 I don't think the aft CG ballast is used in normal flight; just for training, at least in Boulder, CO, anyway!

Actually not, very fast touchdown

Practice! Training! The K21 has a special weight kit for this purpose and you have to calculate the weight and balance for the ship to find the correct weight range fir the spin weights. As I remember it was about 5 pounds for me and my instructor. There are plates and a bolt that runs through a hole at the base of the tail.

@@greggdavis Why not use a K13? Seems pointless to make a glider spin that was designed not to.

@@monza1002000 we don’t have a K13 at our club. It’s our main training aircraft, so there’s definitely a reason to spin the K21. It’s designed to do so for training, that’s why it has designated tail weights.