RE: New to sailplanes
Welcome to the world of soaring. I myself just got back into it after flying power aerobatics for 13 years. I have a very understanding wife who now has agreed to going to IMAC, Pattern, Pylon and now soaring events with me. The no thermals comment is priceless. When I worked for a hobby shop we started importing a line of sailplanes from Germany called Airjet. They were works of art with blow molded fuses and balsa covered foam surfaces. Quite advanced for the day ( 1986 ). We were at the Chicago model expo on dealers on;y day ( Friday ) And I could not convince a dealer form Florida that he had thermals. He kept repeating " No thermals in Floor E da" LOL Have fun with it as it is one of the purest form of R/C and will teach you loads about what mother earth is doing constantly that most have no clue about.