Originally Posted by
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Gliders have better performance and in general glider pilots have far better met appreciation than the average spammer. (I'm not a glider martyr by the way, I do power as well) By the way the wave height record in a glider is over 50,000 ft....
Both Aboyne and Portmoak will be glad to give anyone the benefit of their advice when it comes to wave (and there are probably no better in the world to give that advice). Also should you fly into Aboyne you will find the runway interestingly narrow. I seem to remember that a Chippy has 4 inches clearance either side of the wheels.
PMK and ABO probably have the best advice in the UK, but the world? Probably not. There is a lot of wave flying in NZ and the Americas, and probably other places I don't know about.
I have no idea what the G limits on the average GA steed are, I do know that gliders are very strong (built to survive repeated field landings!) and also if you fly wave right, you are rarely if ever flying in the rotor once you've got into the wave - you are flying along the front of the wave bars, sometimes very fast, and a jump upwind is done where the wave looks to be running less strongly e.g. the clouds are smaller.
However, OP, you might well enjoy a visit to PMK or ABO as it will give you a very different flying experience and perspective. Gliders are also wonderfully quiet - both no engine noise, and very little wind noise - so you can talk to the chap in the back seat without needing headsets and so on.