"JJ Sinclair" wrote in message
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Just how does one perform a *Go-Around* in a glider?
JJ Sinclair

BTDT!!!

Be on final in an HP-14 w. 90-degrees of flaps going for a short runway,
realize you're going up & will overshoot into Tiger Country, suck up the
hydraulically-operated flaps at ~500' agl & rack it around for another
(successful) try.

As for how one gets into such a situation...

It took some time to recognize 'Serious Cloud Suck' due to: a) climbing w.
full flaps in an HP-14 is 'bloody unlikely,' b) viz ahead was nil due to
heavy rain from the cell over the field, & c) doing the Charles Lindbergh
sideways-/downward-viz thing over featureless prairie doesn't lend itself to
precise vertical calibration. No, I don't want to have to do it again,
contest finish or no contest finish.

Regards,
Bob - got away w. it - Whelan


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