DG Aviation DG-808S
Target for the DG Aviation DG-808S
Up to 100fpm
Full marks for descent rate up to 100 fpm, and no note for a soft touchdown: a feather-light arrival is the right technique here.
- Vref reference
- 52ktat 393 kg
- Tail-strike limit
- 14°the category's
- Ideal touchdown zone
- 50 to 200mpast the threshold
- G-force
- 1.10Gfull marks, the category's curve
Single-seat 15/18-meter competition sailplane from Germany's DG Flugzeugbau, the unpowered DG-808S version of the DG-800 family, with a lighter DG-600-derived fuselage.
Roundout scores this aircraft with the Glider / Sailplane category's curves and touchdown-zone window. The figures it uses are below.
How its touchdown is scored.
The score at each point of its curves. Between the points, scores fall in a straight line; the full method is in the scoring methodology.
No shared landings or board for this aircraft yet. Its figures appear once pilots with a public profile have shared 5 graded landings in it, and a board once at least 5 opted-in pilots have flown it 10 or more times each. See the boards there are.
For reference.
Aircraft data
- Manufacturer
- DG Aviation
- Model
- DG-808S
- Variant
- DG-808 S (18 m, FSX-based freeware)
- FAA approach category
- A
- MTOW
- 600 kg (1,323 lbs)
- Vref in flight
- Adjusted to the weight you land at
- MSFS source
- Payware (Touching Cloud)
- Category
- Glider / Sailplane
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