Hi Denis,

If I understand you well you will wait with pulling the airbrakes until the
glider has stopped its rotation and then carefully put some back pressure on
the stick. I was considering the idea of pulling the brakes with the glider
still in its rotation mode in order to keep forward speed as low as possible
at any time. However this may frustrate the spin recovery action; I just
don't know. What's your idea about this. Of course handbooks do not say
anything about this.
B.t.w. my provisional handbook for the Ventus-2cxT forbids spin exercises.
My idea is to avoid spins with this glider any time anyway; however I will
try to get some feeling about the glider's behaviour close to entering this
"acrobatic" flying mode.

Karel, NL

"Denis" schreef in bericht
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K.P. Termaat wrote:

Started this thread (Avoiding Vne) some weeks ago with a kind invitation
to
respond to the idea of pulling the airbrakes while still in the rotating
mode of a spin. The idea behind it is when rotation has been stopped
with
the glider at a pitch angle of say 60° or more this will be at a lower
speed
then when the airbrakes stay closed all the time. Possibly a build up of
speed to over Vne can then be avoided after that. Of course airbrakes
should
be closed again in the following pull up manouvre.
Any comments?

well... after 114 answers, I think you have good specimens of the very
diverse opinions that have been expressed so far ;-)

in short, mine is : apply full airbrakes just after applying the initial
spin recovery control inputs, and keep them out during dive (gentle)
pull out...

--
Denis

R. Parce que ça rompt le cours normal de la conversation !!!
Q. Pourquoi ne faut-il pas répondre au-dessus de la question ?