Karin
Experienced
My first wing, about 60 hours on it. Glued together in rough air and very hard to scare, which is exactly what I needed in year one. Slow, but that is the point at the start.
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EN ASkywalk
Skywalk Mescal 6
A planted, predictable EN A built for schools and early solo pilots. Hard to scare.
EN A · AR 4.8 · 37 cells · 75–110 kg · S / M / L / XL
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13 pilots have logged 400 hours on the Skywalk Mescal 6, a EN A.
It is usually an early wing, the Skywalk Mescal 6, with pilots commonly moving on to the Niviuk Hook 6 as the hours add up. Owners describe it as hard to scare and glued together in rough air, a deliberately slow, planted first wing. Most of its flying is close to home, with 11% of flights going cross-country.
Distilled from 1 pilot review and 315 logged flights · what pilots logged and wrote, not a spec sheet
The stats · from the logbooks
What the flying says about it
Pilots flying it
13
Logged flights
315
Total airtime
400 h
Total distance
3,575 km
Longest logged flight 132.9 km
What the logbooks say
Hours logged before flying itOften a first wing
Typically flown by pilots with65–170 h
Flights that go cross-country11%
Who flies it
Under 50 h2
50–200 h10
200 h+1
Across 13 pilots in the community sample.
The upgrade path, what pilots flew before and after
Pilots moved on to
Usually an early wing, so little comes before it
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