$250,000 of Brand New Glider: The DG-1001 Club Neo

Check out this amazing new glider! Our club's DG 1001 Club Neo has arrived, we have a first look. Our club members are very excited.

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00:00 Check out the beast
01:03 Interior Review
01:43 Flashing Nose
03:13 Massive Trailer

[StayHighStayFast]

Smart choice! Our’s is working a treat. You will all especially enjoy the factory canopy seals. Perhaps the quietest glider I’ve ever flown. :)

[The_Flying_Pig]

Loving the nose LED think you need to call the plane Rudolph

[Johan-exyj]

Oooo, very exciting! Congrats on the beautiful new Sailplane.
If I may quote the words of QE2: *“May God bless her and all who sail in her."*

[IgorVolkov]

A flashing beacon in the nose of a glider is a great idea! I see these in the mountains, they are very noticeable

[ulin]

Congratulations to your new trainer! I am excited for you. Your club is doing the right thing by updating and upgrading the equipment to train with.

[BruceHoult]

Congratulations! In Wellington club we've had a DG1000 Club glider since May 2007, though I personally kept flying the Janus (as it is even better performance, but a pig in handling, so almost no one else wanted it!) until we sold that when the 2nd DG1000 arrived in December 2009. They're really been superb for everything from trial flights and initial training to cross country to aerobatics. The only real quirk is that the fixed undercarriage is lower than a retractable one. That makes passenger access a LOT easier, but it also lowers the AoA on the ground with resultant higher lift-off and touch-down speeds than with the retractable undercarriage. The touch-down attitude is actually nowhere near the stall so you learn the correct attitude and hold off until it reaches that attitude rather than holding off until it won't fly at all -- if you do that then the main will be a foot off the ground when the tail touches down, which is not good. You quickly get used to that though.

[afsx]

Our club has one DG-1000S and one DG-1001S and they're both working great after some starting difficulties... We have both the 18m small winglets for teaching students and aerobatics and the long 20m winglets for cross country flights and with the retractable undercarriage and 20m wingspan it has a 46:1glide ratio which is great! And the versatily with the winglets is really great, but the controls are a bit stiff... But overall a great glider I was taught on how to fly gliders!

[ronaldglider]

DG-1000 is my favorite 2-seater by a long measure!

[glider]

Fantastic plane! I am flying the DG-1001S now for several years as a PAX-Pilot. Great!

[steinpedersen]

Nicest club glider I have ever flown is the DG1000S 18m/20m. Does everything, schooling, aerobatics and cross country. And it is more than good enough for x-country for you to have nothing to complain about, unlike my club's Twin Astir. Prefer the 20m tips to give me DuoDiscus performance, but even the 18m tips are more than good enough. My gliding club are also getting a DG1001 Club Neo soon. Looking forward to that. Congratulations with your new DG!!!

[RafMov]

Look at the red one flying witch she is gorgeous 😍 Glider is very nice but you will see maneuvering it on the ground could be challenging during initial training.🙂

[fredbloggs]

The general financing and typical cost of ownership of both new and 2nd hand gliders would make an interesting video sometime.

[glennwatson]

First time as a private pilot the other day interacting with gliders. Was in the circuit of a major glider clubs airport Benalla, was thankful for the ground crew being on the radio keeping me alerted of local procedures (found the ERSA entry confusing) and also alerting me to the glider traffic in the area.

[FlyingZC]

Hi Tim, Bowland Forest are a year into our purchase/wait. This is probably the first time we will have seen one up close. Well done just for hanging in there and getting it done. Fixed undercarriage deffo a good idea for a club glider. reduces maintenance and initial costs. Looking forward to more vids. Its a tad far to come and try her out me thinks :-(

[colinjacobs]

I love flying our club's DG-1000s, they're brilliant to learn in. No fancy nose lights though! A trip in Rudolph over that beautiful NZ countryside would be a wonderful experience.

[harryspeakup]

What a beauty! May it give you all several decades of pleasurable and trouble-free service. It seems a fair step up in performance from a K-21, which is the only fixed-gear glass two-seater I'm familiar with, yet while maintaining operational simplicity and hopefully low maintenance requirements

[justme.]

I'm very interested in gliding, but can you give me any insight you have into this aspect. Repair and maintenance costs. In the past 3 to 5 years how much have you or people you know, had to spend on repairs and maintenance etc to stay airworthy. I ask because a woman said she had to spend $8k to have cracks around her airbrake boxes repaired and that's a lot to me.

[The_Modeling_Underdog]

Congratulations to the club on the new glider, Tim. Looking forward to the next video. Cheers.

[Balancedviewable]

ive flown quite a bit n the 20m retract version, now that rocks.

[MagnusWendt]

We finally have some soaing weather here in south Sweden so I am leaving early for a flight in our dg1000.