Playing around with the pitch phugoid

On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 6:45:39 PM UTC+3, Tango Whisky wrote:
As some posters already stated:
If you fly the sailplane with your hand on the stick, there won't be any significant phugoid (I've flown about 3 dozend different gliders in 35 years, from 10m span to 29m span - never seen a phugoid while flying the glider).

If you take your hand off the stick, most sailplanes will start a phugoid..
Best way to end it: grab the stick and fly the glider.

Are you sure that you have actually flown a glider?

Does that work if you close your eyes at the same time?

Certainly I've never had a problem with unwanted pitch phugoid, but then I've never flown a glider with absolutely no outside pitch reference, even if only showing me changes in pitch, not absolute pitch. e.g. I'm fine in a mountain valley I have my doubts about deep inside a cloud.