Earlier, Raul Blacksten wrote:

I used to fly a BG-12. In ground effect, with flaps down, and in no
wind conditions, I have used nearly the entire runway length to set
down because I was taught to never close the flaps.

Sort of heading off on a tangent:

I also fly flapped, airbrake-free gliders. When I first bought one I
was told by several pundits to never ever retract the flaps on
approach.

Fortunately, I figured out pretty quickly that the pundits were just
plain full of it. Within a few flights I'd mastered the feed-forward
that it takes to go quickly and safely from 90 degrees to full negative
and back again.

Getting back on track, Jim Skydell gets my kudos on this one. Yeah, he
messed up. So? Who among us has never experienced any lapse of
judgement or reason, and fully expects never to do so? Please you to be
casting the first stone.

Bob K.