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Nova Mentor 7EN B

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Nova Mentor 7

The benchmark high-B XC machine. Class-leading glide that keeps finding lift on long days.

EN B · AR 5.4 · 54 cells · 75–95 kg · XXS / XS / S / M / L

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260 pilots have logged 26,442 hours on the Nova Mentor 7, a EN B.

Pilots typically step onto it around 40 hours in, most often from the Niviuk Hook 6, and many move on to the Ozone Alpina 4. Pilots praise a class-leading glide that keeps hunting lift, demanding in the bumps and rewarding for anyone chasing distance. Its logbooks lean cross-country: 48% of flights on it go the distance.

Distilled from 2 pilot reviews and 14,209 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

260

Logged flights

14209

Total airtime

26,442 h

Total distance

483,444 km

Longest logged flight 144.3 km

What the logbooks say

Hours logged before flying it~40 h
Typically flown by pilots with140–235 h
Flights that go cross-country48%

Who flies it

Under 50 h0
50–200 h154
200 h+106

Across 260 pilots in the community sample.

The upgrade path, what pilots flew before and after

Pilot reviews

Verdicts, ranked by Lift

Real pilots, surfaced by the Lift their reviews earn and the hours behind them.

Sebastian
Sebastian

Test pilot

340hon it

Coming up on 340 hours on the Mentor 7 and it is the reason I fly the distances I do. The glide is genuinely class-leading for a B and it keeps hunting lift when wings around me give up and sink out. It asks for an active pilot in the rough stuff and it will talk to you constantly, but everything it tells you is useful and it pays back every bit of attention. Not a first B, but if you want to commit to real cross-country on a wing that still has a B's recovery, nothing in the class touches it.

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Noëmi R.
Noëmi R.

Licensed

160hon it

Two seasons and 160 hours building real XC skills on this. Huge performance for a B, and it taught me to commit to glides and trust the wing across the blue. I only left it because I wanted more direct feedback at speed.

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