PS "aggressive" is a relative turn. Whatever it takes to freeze the airspeed. Not enough to raise the dead cats to the canopy, but it's still a much larger input than you might at first think would be appropriate in a blind flying situation. The point is that at the point of maximum airspeed in a well-developed pitch phugoid, the glider is flying much faster than trimmed speed, and really wants to slow down by pulling up, and your job is to prevent that and then to slowly ease it down to a slower airspeed. Play around with it a bit and the ideas I posted may make a bit more sense. You have to see if first-hand in your own glider to really appreciate it.

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