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July 11th 18, 06:28 PM
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When gliders fail in flight, but pilots manage to land
Decades ago, I did a "first flight of the season" in a ASW-20. Normal preflight of, "cup hand around tail probe and blow" yielded sorta normal needle movement.
At about 200', airspeed was low (glider felt solid), so continued flight. Flew for a couple hours, landed fine, derigged. Found a rodent had chewed through a pressure tube. A quick blow looked fine, steady state had a leak. I had reverted to, "does it look good, does it feel good, does it sound good?". Decent short cross country, woulda sucked for a competition. So, unless IFR, revert to basics, hopefully you were taught the basics...... IFR stresses, "believe the instruments, verify what is correct". 
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