In a low performance glider I don't have any experience. In a glass glider a
no brakes landing is dicey as hell.
You just enter ground effect and fly forever. With a long runway it's not
much of a problem but the landing takes lots of space... If you have short
runway or an obstacle requiring a stepper approach path, it's a recipe for
an extended trip to the repair shop.

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Ray Hart wrote:

landing, just in case. I wouldn't recommend practising
no-brake landings
though.

This is another thread, but a no spoiler approach is one of the
simplest "advanced" manouvers out there. I only have access to a L-23
and tried this a few months back. I was able to use about as much
runway as the typical normal landing made by others. Spot touchdown
was a bit dicey, but I always got stopped where I had planned.


Gotta give it a try in the ASH-26E sometime. Should I "cheat" and use
landing flap, or give it a shot in thermalling flap?
-Tom