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Originally Posted by FOZ_1983
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Its just basically falling out of the sky slowly haha. Would scare the living hell out of me!!
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yes but veeeeery slowly and not scary at all once you're in the cockpit, try it!! Just don't fly too far from the airfield below certain quota
In my country ( but i think almost everywere, not sure about foreign laws ) sailplanes and gliders are the only type of aircraft allowed to land everywere outside the runaway, ( can specially happen during sailing events or contest where to win you have to fly a certain path etc etc ) and then, able to take off the day after.
If you land with a propeller plane outside the runaway the "fly insurance stuff" suddendly get void and the aircraft need certain test to be allowed to fly again.
Sailplanes have minimum sink rates of between 0.4 and 0.6 m/s depending on the class.... and if the air you sink in raise faster than your rate... you gain altitude... super fun!
