High Performance Sailplane With A Tiny 24 HP Engine 

I went once whenI was 12. It was turbulent and the pilot felt compelled to chain smoke the whole flight. That made me nauseous. Thanks jerk!

He meant 50 feet forward and one foot down

L/D .. he slipped but he did a great job explaining the sport. We need more young pilots or this sport is dead. I would say this is true everywhere except for Germany and France.

Oh yeah! You can get pretty squirrelly with these birds

@@MultiFisherofmen really please state what aerobatic maneuvers the ASG29es is permitted to perform......

Nope, you can find the flight manual that specifies such here: ilec-gmbh.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Flughandbuch_ASG29Es.pdf

They do have a G limit of +5​@@buzzinbritain8222

They are small engines, more suitable for sustaining the glider when thermals goes off rather then for take off. It is most considered for emergency. Take off with so little power is possible but .... personally do not recommend, even because you probably spend all your fuel to climb and if you have an emergency ... what you do without gas? For this reasaon is better to climb with a towplane, make your flight and spare your enegine and fuel for problems in the return flight. I have flown over Swiss Alps (not the flat Florida!) and here with such small engine do very little.

@@antonioiozzi4301 Makes sense. I've seen some electric ones that are powerful enough to use for takeoff. Nice thing about electric is that after catching a few good thermals, you could use the prop as a wind powered generator and recharge the battery for later when you've hit a dry spot.

@@daveduncan2748 there are several ones on my RL airport, From two Stemme S10 (very complex aircraft to mantain) , or the Nimbus3, to the little single engines like the Silent 2 Elektro, but frankly, at least here over the Alps, they have more problems than solutions. Our Nimbus 3 with a 700 mt runway barely takes off ... and you must be a very good pilot.

As of the time of this video, around $200k

Its only 24 hp - its a small engine with small prop - other sailplanes do self launch usually using 40-65hp engines - and more stupid bullshite, are you like 5 years old?

@@buzzinbritain8222 hehe, no I'm a polymath genius. You? sure it's only 24HP however it's also a 48:1 glide ratio bird which means 24horses can easily carry it up. Isaac Newton. And I'm very right about the rest too.

@@DanFrederiksen no, you don't have a clue about anything................and if your a genius then I must be Newton.............

The same manufacturer makes a slightly different model which takes off on its own - the ASH 31mi. The self-launching engine is rated at 57 hp. To make room for the larger engine the fuselage is slight wider, and the wing area is slightly greater to support the extra weight when the lift is weak. In the 18m class self launching models are less competitive in top level competition than the non self-launching models.

Gliders with engines this size can't *officially* take off on their own, but given a sufficiently long and smooth runway with no tall obstacles at the end I've seen it done from e.g. a 1500m sealed runway. More practical is to tow them to 100 km/h or so with a car and a short rope (I mean 20+ m). Proper self-launching gliders can take off in 200m on grass.

Well the guy does work for the Romanian crook that owns the operation........ so has to B/S a lot.....

he missspoke there, L/D of this aircraft is 50

You dont need your own one, if i rent a high performance glider at my club its abaut 5 euros per houer. a used glider starts at abaut 5000 euros if you are determined enough, a glass glider abaut 10.000 euros and something you can fly in club claas competitions is abaut 15-25k

Texas catheter to an exit tube. Might streak the aircraft though.

@@randomguyinanglider facts

If you want a 2 seater version with similar/same performance and features you can have one. It will $cost$ more, and you don't even need to ask for the Lord's help. 🙂

Ignorance.....Both glider & sailplane are used... A sailplane soars and sails...Doesn't NEED a sail.... You should take a ride in one....

A sailplane is MOST definitely a glider mate

why do you need the SPL (Sailplane Pilots License) to fly it then?