Wallace Berry wrote in message ...
lots of good stuff snipped...

Geeze, Wally. Thanks! Just a couple of responses through the entire
thread.

Floating down the runway? More flaps. With 90 degrees and the nose
level...she stops pretty close to right now. Might want to make sure
you aren't more than that foot or so above the ground, or you test
Schreder's wonderful shock absorbtion.

Clouds? Full flaps at whatever speed you are going aren't going to put
you up much...and you will come down quite quickly...and out of the
cloud. If you go 90 degrees in my 16, you can pretty much let go of
the stick (at altitude) and it descends quite docilly...well...it bobs
and weaves but it don't scare me much. There is a bunch of drag there.
I should note that I am at the forward limit of the CG.

My biggest concern about the -16 is that it is gonna ruin me for other
gliders. No way will I ever find similar glidepath control. I can
modulate out of pretty much any amount of trouble.

At any rate, Wally, thanks again. I love to share! And I had to fly
tow anyway!!

Jim