13.5 Meter World Championships

On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 6:31:13 PM UTC-6, son_of_flubber wrote:
On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 7:08:25 PM UTC-4, Renny wrote:

Hopefully, one can actually aviate and rotate one FES switch at the same time....

Drop nose, turn on FES (I guess).

Have you practiced this in your Lak17B? Do you have to worry about running into the tow plane or do you turn slightly to the right?

Drop nose, turn to the right and turn the FES throttle knob clockwise is the "plan." I have done this at altitude several times and running into the towplane has not been an issue.

Now, to bring us back to the 13.5 meter World's, many of the ships will have the FES (almost or perhaps all of the Silent 2s), so it will be very interesting to see how all of these FES equipped ships perform at the Worlds!