Which 18m FES sailplane to buy?

On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 17:01:17 -0800, Bruce Hoult wrote:

I don't know about a "shove" on the stick, but before I got rated in it
I practiced flying at 65 knots or so and moving the flap lever fairly
quickly between -7 and landing flap and back repeatedly, while having no
noticeable change in G loading or airspeed.

In that case its a glider-specific issue. If I simply moved the flaps
from zero to landing, my ASW-20 lost 10-15 kts 'like that', but a
simultaneous shove on the stick made the speed loss go away.

Actually, its not all that different different to the SZD Puchacz, where
opening the brakes tends to cause a slight pitch-up and loss of speed,
also eliminated with a simultaneous push on the stick.


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