School glider

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A school glider was a glider on which student pilots learned to fly in the early days of gliding .

Use in training

The basic training of pilots practiced today , in which a student pilot is accompanied and trained by a flight instructor on a two-seater glider up to his first solo flight , was not possible in the early days of glider flying . The single-seater training with school gliders in headwinds with wing-straight-holding exercises was started on flat slopes, then slides and jumps up to S-ahead flights were practiced on the rubber rope. Afterwards, practice sailors with the same or similar wings, but mostly braced instead of braced and with clad hulls, were used. With glide ratios of around 15, they made slope gliding possible even at moderate wind speeds. This one-seater school method has not been used in practice since the 1960s.

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Glider flight in the Gatower Mountains

When the student took off for the first time, the school glider was catapulted into the air on a slightly sloping meadow using a rubber rope so that the student could glide a few meters. The heights achieved were very low, so that a tax error did not have too great consequences.

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Glider flight in the Gatower Mountains

The school gliders were simply constructed so that they could easily be built by air sports clubs themselves and, above all, quickly repaired themselves in the event of damage.

Examples of school gliders

Antonov A-1 (1932)