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L13's been around a long time now. Remarkable design for the 1960's, when wood and canvas still reigned supreme. Flew a Blanik at Nympsfield,UK in 1976. John.FAI/BGA 51417.

Did my unitial training on T21b, T49, T21c and soloed on T45. Did advanced training on K7,K13, Blanik and Bocian. All excellent machines, still fly the K13 occasionally, when I get the opportunity. Still gliding after 57 years. John.FAI/BGA 51417.

Dude, why you fly so low behind the tow?

The tin-caning noice is normal during loops. "Bloing-Bloing" it sounds. Loose tapes (aileron?) flutters on the wing and cause distraction. Preflight check!!! This time a thorough one...!!! The relative short tail arm gives fast response on the elevator-action. It requires some skill and flight-accustoming to make a full-airbrake precise flaring in a low speed landing. Rolling is compared slower though. The B-4 can spin. The small rudder and short tail arm make sideslipping during landing quite ineffective. OK? The B-4 is NOT as strong as it is advertised... In Germany a B-4 wing failure was recorded at 7.4 G's and that is below the 8.0 G it should have. The Conticell foam ribs in the wing tend to crack...this is hard to determine and hard to repair; this must be done by opening the wing. A very specilistic work.

In the 80's I flew at Kingaroy airfield in Queensland, (my first lessons) and in the mid 80's at Bond Springs north of Alice Springs where I experienced my first aerobatics lessons, I loved every second and miss flying now due to being confined to a wheelchair but have wonderful memories of my adventures.

ASK13 are great training aircrafts; at my club we operate 2 of them; the cost of ASK21 has skyrocketed and we currently can't afford one, and honestly for the price the performance is disappointing. My last flight, last November (yes, it's then wintertime in Belgium) : th-cam.com/video/i5XuEn3D7s4/w-d-xo.html

Hello form France ! Where and how do you attach the camera please ?

I remember the club I learned to fly doing my spin recovery training in a K13 as it was very difficult to get a K21 to spin.

Really nice aircraft. It was the first glider I ever flew and definetely worth every minute you can fly with it.

Save the K13! Our club has one too which needs a major overhaul and survey, and we simply cannot afford it so it sits in the back of our hangar unloved and in pieces... Keep them flying!!

interesting the yaw string seems to kick out opposite as i would expect at entry only pointing into the spin when allowed to get a touch further along into the spin.

Beautiful landing... What more can I say! Apart that it seems a great glider as well!

Definietely a keeper. I'm still learning (pre-solo) and fly a K-13 (as well as glass 2-seaters) regularly. It's not stuck in the past, it's heritage to be celebrated and rewards good flying technique. Come to Capmphill and have a try!

Thermal off a hot pie! Comfy, he said it, and learning to fly in a glider with a respectable but not sexy glide angle is a good thing.

landing like butter, smoooth

Ha! I flew in this exact plane through the 2000s at Camden.. Good to see her still flying :)

Put the Airbrakes out and do a nosedive, it's something most gliders can't do anymore :) This is a great plane and look how many commented and saying they soloed with one - including me. :) You would love the K8 - it' so light and you feel what's going on in the air. It also thermals really well like the K13

K13 is the only glider that I ever flew in. Dublin Gliding Club, Baldonnell, around 1975.

Flying ATR72 aircraft in wave along New Zealand’s Southern Alps is good fun too. Something I learnt from gliding in my younger years.

can hardly hear you/understand you once you are in the air. especially ascent/under tow.

A lovely machine. In its heyday it performed as well 2 up as many single seaters.

Flew this glider in Cyprus. Was going to go solo but low light stopped play. The CFI was gutted for me. Also helped bring a T21 back into flying order. Open side by side cockpit. We flew into a massive hail storm. The instructor said, you have ducked into the cockpit away from the hailstones. And the were massive. After a short while of being battered I passed control back to him. Lol

i did see this fly .one day i will have a go

yup, I trained in the K13 ... and did my Solo in her 1992 at Portmoak (SGU), Scotland .... a great trainer and very forgiving aircraft to fly for the "unskilled" .... would love to have another flight in the classic "rag and wire" bird !!

Great to be back in a Pilatus again (almost!) - I had one for several years and did some great flying in it. Landed in quite a few fields though but we won’t talk about that!

Flew my first solo in IQ in 1985. Did much the same course as shown, thermalled over my then home in Macarthur Road Elderslie. The noise from a pile driver operating near the Macquarie Grove bridge gave me some anxious moments as I entered downwind. 800 feet on entry to the circuit. Ray Morton was my Instructor, Bill Dinsmore the President. I’d see clients every hour in Camden and if one didn’t turn up and I’d seen or heard the Pawnee up and around and Ray was there teaching he’d have the Pilatus or Astir ready for a quick flight. If my page went off I’d have to land and drive to the airfield’s pay phone to answer it.

I'm in a german club and we don't use ours very often but it is our secondary two seat trainer (ASK21 being the primary) and on nice summer days many pilots fly it alone or with someone just for fun. The large single piece canopy also offers a great view from the back seat and my first ever glider flight was in that back seat. I found it astonishing how little my FI could see from the back seat in the 21. Also the 13 will enter and exit spins exactly like textbook and for that reason alone I think it's worth keeping. Btw. It's not an AD but Schleicher says you shouldn't do aerobatics with it.

Nice! I got a bit of time on the K13 back in the day with the RAF GSA

I stumbled across this channel by chance and it brought back great memories. In 1982 I did 25 flights at Camden(for $400 with a chance of getting solo) and the first twelve were in the K13 and Bill Dinsmore. Didn't go on with the gliding , life and circumstances get in the way. Good fun! Still have my log book. Are the Blanik and the IS 28 still in service? Had a fly or them too.

I went solo in a K13 at Booker, Wycombe, UK in around 1977. They were great.

A K13 lived with my gliding club. My ex-airforce dad said, "Learn to fly a glider and decide if you want an aviation career." I did and enjoyed an entertaining few years in the commercial world. The Piper Cub out front and keep the bar in front level with the wings of the tug. The basics of gliding taught me well. Darts, Swallows, Kestrels - soaring with the Eagles. Another thing was the mateship; we needed others to get the bird in the air.

A big hello from the UK. I’ve flown your K13 a lot during my visits to Southern Cross a few years ago when I visited my daughter who was living in Sydney. I am an instructor at my club in the UK and use our K13 regularly and can confirm that it is a brilliant training aircraft. We will not be scrapping ours!👍

Thank you for the tour.👍👍👍.!

WQN used to belong to Southern Cross Gliding Club and was in a red, white and blue sun burst scheme back then. It was also used in a tv commercial flown by Bill Dinsmore. He put on many a fine aerobatic display in that Pilatus at many airshows.

The pilot’s perspective of both full size and R/C Scale. Nice.

I had a share in a Pilatus B4 quite a while ago. The fuselage cowling, which covers where the wings join, was always tricky to seal up with tape and it could peel off and flap about in the breeze. It was incredibly loud when this happened but you got to recognise it in the end. The Pilatus wing also makes oil-canning noises when it flexes - which is sometimes a good indication that you've hit strong lift.

K7 and K13 . The grand ol girls of the sky .

Altitude/success depends upon the launch that gets you into a thermal? Is there a percentage rate of good launches vrs bad ones? And if there is no thermal have you already got a plan to land close by? On the opposite side of the coin I'm guessing you could get a thermal that takes you out for hours? When this happens & you get to high altitude are you planning your flight to get you back to the airport that you originated from? I apologize for my questions but I'm behind the 8~ball here! peace & it does LQQK fun to me. peace

What's the cost of a winch launch generally? Ive only ever aerotowed.

Szd-51 Junior?

Vas demasiado bajo durante el remolque. Lo ideal es que las alas del remolcador estén sobre la linea del horizonte. A los fines de suavisarle al piloto del remolque el timón de elevación.

We have two of them at Strubby Airfield in Lincolnshire, England and both are still used to train new pilots. Love the K13

I'm not a pilot & I've never looked at glider aircraft so when I heard you say this one has a very low 28;1 glide ratio, I was laughing because the highest one I'd heard of was a 12 to 1 in a Part 103 ultra light aircraft. I suppose I was going to get around to these planes at some point so thanks for being my 1st "Glider Video". An inspection requires lifting the skin off to look at the glue or joints? My lack of knowledge shines bright, lol, so to me you'd check all the controls to make sure they are all up to snuff but pulling the entire skin off..... WoW, it seems extreme for an aircraft without an engine but I guess inspectors need money too? peace & seasons greetings

Love the glimpse of your shadow on final there!

if i was a member of Camden i'd advocate for keeping a 2 seater training aircraft - how do we teach the next generation in single seaters?

Nice! Now I have to go and find my logbook to see if I flew this beautiful bird in the 70s with Bill Dinsmore

Buy and restore it. Not difficult just time consuming but a great passtime

Correct terminology is down and welded andy

Learnt to fly in a K13, and solo'ed in a Ka8. Both great aircraft.

From memory GIQ was syndicate owned before Southern Cross acquired it. I soloed in back then Concordia Gliding Clubs K13, VHGTU at Camden. I still believe the K13 is the best training glider ever made as it makes you feel a part of the glider.