How Low to Spin??

At 21:54 29 August 2004, Eric Greenwell wrote:
I am curious
about how you decided 'low and fast' was the best choice:
conversations with other pilots, testing both methods
on fields (maybe with a
motorglider?), or ...?

After seeing too many friends die in stall/spin accidents
- it's purely a consequence of my own paranoia with
flying too slow in the pattern.

What are you flying 'a bit faster' than? The glider
handbook
recommendation?

Yes.

What glider are you flying?

ASW-27B

This 'fast and low' approach sounds like something
easily done at the
home airport, but would be tricky to do right going
into a field you've
never seen before. Have you used this method at airports
and into fields
you've been landed at before?

Yes.

Andy Blackburn wrote:

At 21:54 29 August 2004, Eric Greenwell wrote:

I am curious
about how you decided 'low and fast' was the best choice:

conversations with other pilots, testing both methods

on fields (maybe with a
motorglider?), or ...?


After seeing too many friends die in stall/spin accidents
- it's purely a consequence of my own paranoia with
flying too slow in the pattern.

I can see how the "fast" part can help, but not the "low" part. Being
low doesn't seem like an asset if you are worried about stalls and spins.


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Eric Greenwell
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USA