Hi Folks,
long time no post. I thought I put a more recent pic of the -3 in, taken by Daniel Br?ssow:
The -3 which I imported some 2 years ago is doing good (see pic).
As I am only flying some 25-30 hrs p.a. I have got a real great partner in. May I introduce Daniel: a young bloke mid 20ies and former RC model guy with some prices won on the European Championship level.
He started flying ?real planes? from scratch some two and a half years ago and we got him to fly the -3 some 2 weeks ago after some 60 hrs total time. Back in November 2012 he was sneeking around the -3 and it become obvious this lad wants to get somewhere. It popped up in my mind: why not offer him a partnership and get him to fly the -3 as he is such an eager young guy.
So Wolfgang (-8) took him with him on pretty much every occasion and Daniel started to learn flying with the rudders on his feet on a Touring Motor Glider (Grob G109). After having obtained his license on the TMG he got his SEP on a nose gear plane (you?ll never know for what this might be good for ...) and logged some 3 hrs on the Citabria.
Wolfgang and me gave him a thorough ?ground course? and off he went to fly the -3.
Daniel after his 5th and final landing on the day of transition:
All went well as you can see and he is now building up confidence (there were some ?oops? landings later but he is back on track now ... the last one I witnessed was a real 3-point greaser on the concrete RWY and Daniel, being him, had still some remarks on how he could do better!!). We will further improve the look/finish of the -3 (as Smokey suggested at the time of pre-buy).
Daniel knows what to do ... and he is fully on it!!
Best, Heinz
P.S. I don?t want to put some feathers in my ... here but I think the RV community provided some good help to get a young and eager guy into such a plane: Daniel, well done and big thanks to all involved!!