As a bit of light relief to this e-mail tennis, I thought
I'd add an 'interesting' idea that did the rounds in
the UK a few years ago. Basically, the BGA instructors'
committee (or the national coach, can't remember exactly
now) suggested that if you were high on finals, pulling
full brake/spoiler and diving at the ground would burn
off more energy than other options. We had great fun
trying this out one weekend until our CFI decided his
aircraft were in mortal danger and stopped the experiment.

Happy days!

Paul

Nice analogy Paul - do you play doubles?

As I recall it was the CFI who initiated it and I believe the correct
procedure was to reduce speed to min sink, then deploy full air brake, then
initiate a dive attempting to reach 60knots. The national coach at the time,
lovely man, card player, suggested its use as a means of landing straight
ahead from a failed which launch. I recall there was another game we played
involved a life expired 'chute - he initiated that one too, as I recall.

Rgds,

Derrick.