Thread
:
Replacing the MKIV yaw string - tips
View Single Post
#
5
December 3rd 12, 01:26 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
BobW
external usenet poster
Posts: 504
Replacing the MKIV yaw string - tips
On 12/2/2012 3:36 PM,
wrote:
Snip...
Tape that bothersome loose end down. Why didn’t I think of that!
Thanks, Bumper. In addition to great products, your customer support is
unequalled. I also appreciate learning it’s okay to tell the MKIV to
“straighten up and fly right”. Silly me. I thought that’s what it
was telling me. Anyway, with that cleared up, now I can concentrate on
why my flights are always so much slower that everybody else’s.
Michael
Seriously now, any tips on how to fly without a yaw string should our
beloved MKIV high tech device fail?
Hmmm... Assuming this is a serious question, in the days before even the MKI
was available, I experienced total yaw string failure. More than once,
actually, on ships ranging from 1-26 (captured by canopy rail) to 15-meter
glass (adhesive failure...and the tape was hardly even 10 years old!).
Being a cheap (rhymes with "dastard"), I continued soaring, coordinating by
feel and sound. Easy if you have a noisy ship. (Sorry if this costs you future
sales, Bumper!)
Bob - I plead "winter", Yr'onner! - W.
BobW
View Public Profile
View message headers
Find all posts by BobW
Find all threads started by BobW