On Sunday, 17 March 2013 18:17:17 UTC, Eric Greenwell wrote:
On 3/16/2013 11:42 PM, Chris Rollings wrote:

At 02:25 17 March 2013, Jeremy Keeling wrote:





I don't think the aircraft is a model haha, look at the relative size of

everything around it.

It seems to me that the CCTV camera would be looking towards an aircraft

parking area maybe? Or perhaps the other aircraft that were there had

already been tossed over and the person fetched his camera to catch the

last one...I dunno.



Up elevator only matters on a nose-wheel aircraft. Most empty gliders sit

with the tail-wheel or skid on the ground so elevator position is almost

irrelevant.



The comparable glider errors I see are leaving the tail dolly attached

to an unattended, unsecured glider; not putting the flaps into full

negative; and not turning the glider perpendicular to the wind.



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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to

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Re parking with the flaps in full negative - the ASH 26 manual tells you to put the flaps in neutral if leaving for a while. I wonder what the reason is - protecting the seals? I always do what I am told!

Mark Burton