On Jun 16, 3:44 pm, "BlueCumulus" wrote:
it is not contradictory

- it needs much force to push the flaps to negative position
- when you fly fast through a thermal or turbulence the handle unhooked
and comes fully back into positive position, unless you hold it
permanently
in your hand.
- a former world champion who flew the glider said: The plane unfortunately
can not be flown to its full performance, because as long as it behaves so
badly.

many modern gliders even accept the flaps to be in intermediate positions
without being in a locked position and the flaps will not move.

wrote in message

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- flap handle unlocking in flight and shifting to full positive

I'm curious. How can flaps self-deploy to full positive given in-
flight airflow? Are they somehow balanced?

- too high flap handling forces (more than JAR22 limits)

This one seems to contradict the first one. If it takes a lot of force
to deploy the flaps, how can they self-deploy to full positive?


- Strangely enough Mr.Johnosn did not publish these "revelations".