Schleicher ASK 21
AS21ICAOVFRTrainer
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The two-seat glider most clubs train on. Tough glass-fibre airframe, honest spin behaviour and approved for basic aerobatics.
Units
Performance
- Never-exceed speed (VNE)
- 151 kt
Licence and training
- Licences that cover it
- LAPL(S) · SPL
- Class rating
- Sailplane (winch / aerotow launch)
- Extra training or endorsements
- None beyond the licence and rating.
EASA terms. Other authorities name and split ratings differently.
Flight rules and approvals
- Flight rules
- VFR only
- Approvals
- Aerobatics
Assumes the usual equipment. The aircraft's own documents decide what it may fly.
Type
- Manufacturer
- Schleicher
- Category
- Glider
- Engines
- No engine
- ICAO type designator
- AS21
- Wake turbulence category
- L · Light
- In service since
- 1979
Weights and capacity
- Max passengers
- 1
- Minimum crew
- 1
- Cockpit seats
- 2
- Max take-off weight (MTOW)
- 600 kg
- Empty weight
- 360 kg
Runway
- Usable surfaces
- Grass · Asphalt
No published runway figures for this type yet.
Cockpit and systems
- Cockpit
- Analog gauges
Scale drawing
TopSideFrontLength 8.35 mWingspan 17 mHeight 1.55 m
- Length
- 8.35 m
- Wingspan
- 17 m
- Height
- 1.55 m
- Fuselage width
- 0.71 m
Drawn to scale from the published length, span and height; finer shapes are approximate.
Size comparison
- Schleicher ASK 21Length 8.35 m
- Glaser-Dirks DG-500 Elan TrainerLength 8.66 m
All drawn at one scale. The person is 1.8 m tall.
Speeds
- Green arc: normal operating range
- Red line: never exceed
- 35 kt
- 49 kt
- 97 kt
- 151 kt
Typical published values for the named variant, for learning only. Always fly with the aircraft's own flight manual (POH/AFM).
Fly the Schleicher ASK 21 in the simulator
Practise your radio calls with this aircraft type in the AI ATC simulator.
