The Best 20m Double-Seater? HpH TwinShark Glider Review

Great handling on the ground and in the air, good glide performance and the abilty to take off on your own. 20 m double-seater gliders with a self-launch engine are very populare.

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[jorgspichtig]

Hi Stephan, nice video about the Twin Shark and great pictures! The series version (I own the S/N 7) has some significant differences to the prototype. A completely new engine control unit with a color display with clear messages and symbols and an automated start-up and shut-down sequence. The instrument panel has been fully reworked to a better shape (less view blocking) in the front and to hold more instruments in the back (but still a very good sight from the rear seat), the flap lever is reworked for better ergonomics, the seat pans reworked and in carbon look plus a lot of other details. I like the great handling qualities of the glider, it really flies very similar to a single seater despite the slightly heavier controls. I have now one season of experience in our usually not to strong conditions and I'm always surprised how good it climbs even in weak thermals despite flying around 49kg/m2 double-seated.

[arnaud]

Really good video as always with super editing! Being a private pilot at the beginning, I couldn't imagine i was going to fall in love so hard with gliding. I guess your channel is one of the main reason.

[mitseraffej]

I did a some gliding 40+ years ago but have spent most of my life boring myself stupid flying airliners. Soon to retire I think I should go gliding again. Looks like pure joy.

[LSVFlachkurbler]

had also the chance to make a 1100km test flight on the new TwinShark. I can confirm the impressions from Stefan. I wouldn't be surprised if the Shark is even slightly better in glide performance than the Arcus at very high speeds. Jaroslaw is an incredibly nice person and he has created a really fine product here. Agility in aileron response is slightly worse than Arcus but still really OK. Cockpit is very comfortable in front seat but in the back seat slightly worse than Arcus' back seat for big guys.
Edit:
Forgot one more thing: Shark is indredibly forgiving during thermaling too slow. In fact, you can't even tell the best thermal speed because it climbs well between 95km/h and 120km/h and seems not to care much if you are close to stall. Gets a little bit shaky when below 100 but still refuses to give up air flow. This makes it a nice glider for beginners but seems also to be a very safe plane for mountain flying

[flytelaw]

Stefan…your production value is getting very good….I am so jealous that you are living what I lived for 3 years…only difference is that I flew A319 Jets for Air Namibia ….I absolutely love Namibia! The people are amazing and the scenes and animals are too….

[aaronpahler]

I really really love your drone shots in your Last few Videos, those are so cinematic and professionell and perfekt fit in in the hole vibe of your vids. Really enjoy your Lifestyle through your vids. Your are a role Model for Mandy Young glider Pilots like me!! Keep it up Stefan. 🤙🏼

[Johan-exyj]

I just love elliptical wings! 😍
No matter if it is a Paraglider or Spitfire or Glider, it just looks good!

[viktoradam]

Stefan je super a řídil náš první prototyp této verze. Firma HPH mi životně velice pomohla a já si toho velice vážím. Také jsem létal, ale v roce 1985. Tuto firmu prakticky řídí pan Kopecký, který je super chlap, velice lidský, rychlý a někdy trošku pomatený. Ale má dobré srdce a je fajn člověk

[rianmonnahan]

Hi Stefan, Congrats on your performance at the GP. I flew the Twin Shark yesterday. It's a very nice handling glider even with Jaroslav and me in the cockpit. ;) No issue with comfort for me in the back seat besides the lack of visibility and instrumentation. In the back of the prototype, there's just an LX. I knew this, yet I neglected to come to Kutna Hora with my own profile - a netto would have been very useful. It's a well finished glider for a prototype. Looking forward to my trip to the factory today. Cheers.

[cribbsprojects]

Drone footage, glider flying, and spectacular countryside - all awesome! That is a lovely bird.

[paulkaye]

I'm really loving your latest videos Stefan. Stunning photography and production. Content as good as ever of course!

[jme]

You're a lucky guy, enjoy .
The best two seater I fly is the Duodiscus and I find it wonderfull .

[TommyOlsson]

Again a wonderful video Stefan. That Shark would be something to fly some day. What a beauty! Thanks for sharing.

[petehart]

Hi Stefan,
first of all thanks for the nice video. I flew the prototype some 2, 5 years back and just one month back I had the chance to fly #3 in Kiripotib for almost 2 weeks.
The newer Twin flies even nicer and more balanced, plus trimming is more easy than on the prototype. Climb performance is great and on glide it does a really good job.
Stall charakteristiks are easy to understand and once you got in a stall it´s easy to recover.
I choose to go to the worlds 2022 with the Twin Shark and I´m quite shure not to regret this decision.🤠Peter

[CumulusProduction]

Bravo Stefan for this beautiful video ! Yes, as you said, even if this model is a prototype, we can see that the level of finish/quality is much better than on the Arcus for example. And that's probably what makes the difference.

[AirJoe]

I've never flown this, but the duo discus might still be my favorite twin seat glider. Just sn amazing shape cor a glider

[TheSoaringChannel]

Nice video Stefan! You're making me want to seriously check out the TwinShark. But holy MOLEY those wings are EVEN stiffer than my DG505! I bet turbulence would be really uncomfortable, and ridge would not be a very good experience. What do you think?

I think some comments about the rear seat experience is worth noting as well.

[paultisme]

Brilliant, loved it Stefan.. such a high quality, well edited, exciting production..👍

[PureGlide]

Great review! The ergonomics with the arm using the levers is pretty bad, they need to find a better solution...

[rianmonnahan]

Very nice video. One among many. Indeed, it would be nice to see you in a competition in the Shark flying against the Arcus and the 32. I would love to hear your comparison of these machines. Why? Thinking of buying one. Cheers.