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Light SIV & Acrobatics

 

If you have the level for it, you can learn and practice with us the following manoeuvres, at no extra cost.

Light S.I.V

  • Big ears (with or without speed bar on).
  • B line, the best manoeuvre to go down, fast and stable.
  • 50% asymmetric collapse, not a manoeuvre that you will use, but a situation that you will come across during your pilot career.
  • 360 spiral dive, a way to go down extremely fast, but takes time to learn, good to explore centrifugal forces.
  • The same but with one ear on the outside wing.

Acrobatics

We are not acro experts, but we can teach you the S.A.T, the helicopter and of course basic wing-overs.

By the way, what’s the point of S.I.V?

I know some very good competition pilots who have never done any S.I.V and they are fine! There are different ways to learn to fly safely and to know your wing, you don’t have to do an S.I.V for that. But believe me, if there is a short cut to make your progress 5 times faster, that’s the one!
If, of course, you do it properly by practicing manoeuvres which are within your level.
The right S.I.V training, it can be just an afternoon or a weekend, will definitely improve your safety level AND the flying level of ANY pilot.
Why? because no one can believe before they tried it that:

  • A glider can be flying so stable, so safe with only 50%  of it open.
  • Some glider can go so fast from a stable flying situation to an extremely unstable situation.
  • Some manoeuvres are nowhere near as difficult as they look like and can be so useful “Are you sure that it’s me on this video?”

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