ASW-20 speeds to fly/general advice.

On Thu, 15 May 2014 09:09:47 -0700, rhoan.birch wrote:

I am a very new ASW-20 user (first flight yesterday) I am looking for
any advice for the glider such as:

I found this (by Andreas Maurer) to be very helpful:
http://www.gregorie.org/gliding/asw2..._handling.html

Hopefully you will too.


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Check out the ASW20 Yahoo group.

Jim

At 21:55 15 May 2014, Martin Gregorie wrote:

I found this (by Andreas Maurer) to be very helpful:
http://www.gregorie.org/gliding/asw2..._handling.html

Hopefully you will too.


In my second full year of flying my 20, around 175 hours, only thing I
disagree with in these note is regarding flap setting for thermalling.
I nearly always use 4 at about 42 kts empty and 46 kts with water and it
seems to me to climb better than with setting 3. Mine is an early 20 with
winglets. Be interested in the nopinions of other 20 owners.

Mike

On Friday, 16 May 2014 10:58:40 UTC+3, Mike Oliver wrote:
At 21:55 15 May 2014, Martin Gregorie wrote:



I found this (by Andreas Maurer) to be very helpful:

http://www.gregorie.org/gliding/asw2..._handling.html



Hopefully you will too.





In my second full year of flying my 20, around 175 hours, only thing I

disagree with in these note is regarding flap setting for thermalling.

I nearly always use 4 at about 42 kts empty and 46 kts with water and it

seems to me to climb better than with setting 3. Mine is an early 20 with

winglets. Be interested in the nopinions of other 20 owners.



Mike

I thermal always at setting 4, speed and turn radius is less than with flaps at 3. When dry, I cruise usually 130-150 kph in weak weather (flap 2), 150-180 in stronger weather (flap 2, at 170+ kph flap 1). Ballasted, I adjust speeds +10-+20 kph upwards. Landing always at flap 4.5, never anything else. I recommend always landing at same configuration. It seems to be quite popular to invent new flap settings for landing with ASW20. Thank god it is forgiving aircraft.

Sounds like you're either too slow or too shallow a bank. Calculate your min sink speed for weight, then adjust by load factor the ideal bank applies. Likely 45 degrees or so...probably more like 48-50kts.

E