BGA Tech. News, Wheel brakes.

At 23:00 15 May 2005, Eric Greenwell wrote:
Don Johnstone wrote:
The wheel brake on my ASW 17 will stop the wheel
turning if operated in the workshop, very useful,
pity
it does not retard the glider at all on the ground
run, not that I would want it to as with no nose wheel
an effective brake is not a good idea.

A friend of mine fitted his ASW 17 with a Cessna wheel
and disk brake.
It was very effective, and did not put the glider on
it's nose. If I
needed to use the brake hard enough to put a glider
on it's nose, I'd
gladly trade a scratched nose for running into something
hard or expensive!

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Eric Greenwell
Washington State
USA

I have an answer for that, I don't point it at anything
hard or expensive :-). As luck would have it the 17
is heavyish and most farmers fields in the UK are quite
soft and so work on the gravel trap theory.
I found the same problem as another poster, increasing
the efficiency of the brake switched on white line
drawing mode.