At 06:42 08 July 2006, G L I D E R S T U D wrote:

Yaw sting....if you cant feel your body sliding left
or right when your
uncoordinated, you should probably relax some, because
you are way too
uptight. But then again one of my coaches said I was
too relaxed. On
that note my Discus 2ax didn't have a yaw sting, and
my Nimbus 3
doesn't have one either, and I probably won't get it
'fixed' before the
Opens. I fly in the mountains and I don't feel that
it is hazardous.
Plus that sting is way too much drag.

I defy anyone to 'feel' the tiny amount of yaw that
a yaw string will indicate. The drag created by even
the largest piece of wool will be very small compared
to even a small amout of yaw in straight and level
flight. A 'T&S' ball is just not sensitive enough and
the yaw string has the advantage of being in your eye
line, you don't have to go heads down to see it. To
fly efficiently in a big winged glider is is even more
essential as even tiny amoutns of control differences
are magnified with the addition leverage of long wings.