This sailplane is a kit Great Planes and it was the ideal first sailplane a few years ago, nowadays there are lot's of "less destructible" planes as first choice. It's a fantastic airplane, it flies on low breeze by can face harder days, but it's not a good plane for really bad winds. Is also a good thermal catcher, in fact is the only plane I have flown in exclusive thermal winds. Since it was my first contact with a sailplane, almost everything I know was learnt with this airplane (excluding aerobatics, it doesn't even has ailerons).

I've built this airplane long ago (1994) this was my second kit, being the first one an Aerostar .40 from midwest already trashed, so I spent some time building it, I made some extra work, like the non obligatory spoiler, I still remember my idea, if it can use three of my four available channels why use only two, yes is very silly, but spoiler are very useful especially on those windy days on short landing spots.

One of the latest "had on" a low battery indicator in the "instruments panel", it is a simple bright red led that goes on below 4,4 Volt, it begins to blink on servo movements and then become always on, and that is were we should have it on firm ground.

Is a very nice plane to fly, very stable, very calm and predictable, it can reach considerable speed and does a very nice looping, also perform an interesting stall turn, it can do a toneux but is a very long one and nothing nice to see.

With 78" span, we can get go a bit far without problems, being a double dihedral wing is so predictable while flying that I even leave it in front o the Sun for a while so my personal photographer can do those photos, after the photo I only need to turn the airplane and it appears where expected.

In these images we can see the spoilers opened, the effect is similar to put a rock on top of the plane, I made a small pull up in the elevator (10%) to compensate noise down attitude when spoilers are opened, so the only thing that happens is a loss in speed, very useful in a windy day like this one.

It's always a pleasure to fly this plane, very relaxing an calm, is possible to heat a sandwich while flying this one.