Roger must have a light one or the owner I was talking to meant the inner and outer panels together.
Still too heavy. My ASW20B was around 10 to 15 % heavier than I liked including lifting the tail and it was the lightest one that came in here. Nice to fly but an A model Ventus wafted up inside it when we were both without water.
Mike At 01:37 PM 12/13/2016, you wrote:
>>Rigging and de rigging weren't too bad either. >>The Arcus inner panels are 100 to 101 kg. Easily managed with Cof G rigging assistant. Not too bad where and when? These heavy gliders are not bad for goldfish bowl style flying when you always end up where you started every day but are seriously hard work in an on outlanding or safari where there's a limited supply of hands and good backs. The tail loads are fairly high too and trying to turn a glider 90º or 180º to self launch from the end of a strip is a three person job. The Arcus' tail wheel in the rudder design is an interesting design decision which some might not have made. D _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
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