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Old February 17th 17, 07:16 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default S-turns on final

Then there is always the Marty Eiler special: Full spoiler, point the nose at the ground, go VNE to 5 feet off the deck. Even accounting for the float in ground effect, it uses up gobs of altitude.

John Cochrane.


Any video links to this technique? Heard of it before, don't doubt it works, just like to see it. No, I'm not going to teach it to myself.