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Fred:
Hi Paddy,

Welcome to the forum!  :D

As said earlier, the bigger, the better, and for a second model, I don't think the B4 is a good choice really, but you can keep that one in mind for later.
Cularis, with its versatility sound like a much better choice if you don't mind flying an elapor model like the EG, the main thing here is to pull hours of practice with a good flying machine, and almost full house (sorry Dave, I think airbrakes are much better than crows for slope soaring  :P  :P , another debate, but we can settle that with a good fight at the slope, P51 waiting to produce EPP flakes !  :P  :lol:  )

DaveMc:
Paddy,

Just checked out Cularis... Looks a good choice. Should be a doddle to fly. And you can experiment with flaps and crow braking etc... Just down to a question of weather or not you like foamies or glass or all built up?? But that model will serve you well either way.

If there is one thing I have observed while flying gliders is there is no such thing as the perfect one. The conditions can change on you and all of a sudden the 20+mph wind that was flying your 4m scale model slackens off and you have to land in a hurry. Then you change to the 100" all built up model with a polyhedral wing and your flying in 8mph winds... only for it to get even lighter again by the end of the evening, and your now flying a 3m electric thermalling sailplane. That is why most glider guiders arrive up to the hill top with a car full of models. That and an obsessive compulsion to build and fly more and more models than any one man needs.. we all suffer from that bug  :wink:

So get yourself a Cularis to start with and learn to fly slope. You are right. It is different to flying power but you will learn a hell of lot more about flight in the process. And the views are something else. Later on you can collect a fleet from a foamie combat wing to a 4m scale full house job.

see ya on the hills
D

easyglider:
Sorry guys just back home from holidays was away for bout 2 weeks.....
but before i left i did go ahead and order the cularis from norm down in green marine so im hopin its ready to pick this week at some stage....!
http://www.multiplexusa.com/models/kits/cularis_.php
If anyone wants to take a look....
It has some very nice gadgets lovely demo of them putting it through it paces there too.

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