Bill Daniels wrote:
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Despite many efforts, US flight instruction in gliders is far from
standardized.
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Thanks to many efforts, french flight instruction in gliders is
(or at least should be) standardized. The standard say students
should first learn to keep the airbrakes during roundout at the
half efficiency position they had during the last part of the final,
and later learn to do the rouddout while progrssively extending the
airbrakes to their maximum. Although this does not provide the lowest
possible speed at touch down, this provides the highest possible decay
in speed and this is the important thing as well for minimizing the
length of the ground roll as for avoiding to bounce.

We don't have Schweitzers which would defeat this strategy. The local
equivalent in terms of national singularity would probably be the
Bijave, which works this way.