On Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 1:13:07 PM UTC-7, Eric Greenwell wrote:
5Z wrote on 9/26/2019 12:21 PM:
lowered it to the slightly extended cooling position.

The "slightly extended cooling position" is about 30 degrees from the fuselage.
There is still all the stuff hanging in the breeze: the propeller, the radiator,
almost the entire mast, and the doors are fully open. It looks dreadfully draggy
to a pilot circling in the same thermal with you, but it's just like Tom says: the
drag is so small, you don't know it's there.

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Got so concerned with staying under the LAS Class B once, didn't completely put away the ASH26E mast until after a cruise to the second thermal. A bit noisy but no big deal.
Once climbed in the 26 together with a Discus 2. I still had the mast in cooling position, the D2 was "P7". Impressed!

Enjoying Fred Drift this time, Seems like Kawa was being condemned for nothing.
Jim