Yes, but the vario doesn't "know" that unless you have multiple switches on
the flap detents. Also, how does the vario "know", from increasing "g" that
a pitch up was caused by elevator travel or by the change in angle of attack
due to the vertical component of the thermal? Do we also need stick
movement measuring equipment?

This is all pretty intriguing to me as an engineer because of the
capabilities and the applications we can think up but (just speaking for
myself), I'm less impressed by a 1,000 km flight by a long winged, engine
equipped, highly instrumented glider than I am by a 300 km flight by a rag
and tube machine equipped with a pellet variometer. Still, I like my
LAK-17a!


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What happens when the flaps go positive?

Marc

You get a single transient, which you know about because you just moved
the flap handle