That a micro-light has become the leading option for yet another clubs primary towing aircraft.
It was either spend heaps on re-powering a big old Pawnee or look for something new.
We already have one club totally committed to using a Micro-light/LSA as the tow-plane of choice.
This is becoming a bit of a trend.
And why would one be surprised...what with most of us still using aircraft designed and built before the war, that cost a fortune to maintain, use gas like a Sherman tank, and make plenty of noise...
Times are a changing...
And then...and then...after I'd written this I went off for a 10 minute surf to see if there are any new gliding Video's posted - and guess what...a neat video of a Libelle flying somewhere in the Alps in Europe...A Libelle...how can that be interesting???
Ahh...no ordinary Libelle...it has bright red winglets...AND...bug wipers!!! That has got to be a first...
http://vimeo.com/70145532
Really well edited all the same...I think we forget that sticking a GoPro to the wing of your glider and going flying is the easy part. Good editing is still time consuming and a skill.
Actually we have been banned from sticking camera's to club gliders...the fun police have been about.
Pity really, it added to the sports promotion.
You can see it now...a bunch of younger people comparing cool video clips of their sport (base jumping, skiing, moto-cross etc) while the budding glider pilot hides under the table..."where's your video clip bro???"...umm the old codgers won't let me use the camera...
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