Primary glider

In a Schulgleiter it was a glider on which student pilots in the early days of gliding learned to fly.

Use in training

Practiced today basic training of pilots, in which a student pilot is accompanied by a flight instructor on a doppelsitzigem Glider up to his first solo flight and designed in the early days of gliding was not yet possible. On gentle slopes began the single-seater training with school glides into the wind with wings - just - hold exercises, then S- advance - flights were on an elastic rope rider and jumps to practiced. Then came exercise glider with the same or similar wings, but usually braced instead braced and clad hulls are used. With floating- 15 this enabled the Hang Gliding at moderate wind speeds. This Einsitzerschulmethode is practically not been used since the 1960s.

Start

At the first start of the student's training glider was catapulted on a gently sloping meadow with a rubber rope in the air so that the student pilot could glide a few yards. The achieved levels were very low, so that a control error had no great consequences.

Construction

The Schulgleiter were simply designed to built by aero clubs easily and properly fast especially in case of damage be repaired.

Examples of Schulgleiter

  • SG 38
  • Grunau 9 ( legendary Skullcutter )
  • Høgslund / Traugott -Olsen 2G
  • Pupil RRG -1, pupil and pupil 31 35
  • Damn it
  • Mösch
  • IS-A Salamandra
  • Zlín Z -23 Honza
  • Slingsby Primary ( often referred to as Dagling )
  • Slingsby T.38 Grasshopper
  • Rubik R-16 Lepke
  • Primary EoN AP.7
  • Avia 152a
  • Antonov A-1
  • Northrop Primary
  • Gliding
  • Glider
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