On Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 3:02:26 PM UTC-4, Martin Gregorie wrote:

concluded that the ASW-20 doesn't have a benign spiral.

It's ship/setup dependent.

In my 20B, what works is landing flaps, gear down, spoilers full out. My CG is pretty far back.

Round and round and round at about 50 kts. Top rudder makes it even more stable.

T8's hot tip for partial panel descents: get the glider dirty (i.e. spoilers, flaps, gear). It's about 1000x easier to fly a dirty glider on instruments than a clean one.

Evan Ludeman / T8