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Old 10th Jan 2013, 19:25
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Trial lessons and cockpit limitations

Evening all,

As a gliding club offical and instructor I field quite a few queries from Joe Public interested in trial lessons. With society in general getting heavier and taller, I find myself having to increasingly turn away people because they are outside the normally held cockpit maxima for gliders of 16 stones and/or 6ft 2 inches tall (at least until someone has the good sense to develop a variant with less restrictive limitations).

My question is what the corresponding limits are for, say, a C172 or Pa28, or anything else that anyone knows that has higher limitiations so that I can say "Not but try these people if you really want to fly" rather than a more unhelpful "No !".

Looking forward to hearing your suggestions

Pegpilot
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