Advance Sigma 12 DLS: An Ordinary 3-Liner That Gives the Glide Back

The Sigma 12 DLS's strength sounds like a contradiction: the most ordinary architecture produces the least ordinary glide. The clean, hang-up-free launch and the authoritative handling take the edge off the fear a pilot fresh from high-B meets on first entering the C class. But reading this wing as merely an "easy C" misses the point. The point is that simplicity gave up nothing in performance. The glide moves past the previous generation and edges close to a good two-liner, and that glide rewards most the pilot who pins the core precisely in strong conditions. In trading away the flash, Advance has packed the comfort of a conventional 3-liner and a near-two-liner glide into one wing — a clever compromise.