"Stewart Kissel" wrote in
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4)All sailplanes should have yaw strings.

So what is the logic for no yaw string?...I had the
occasion to fly in a private two seater once, that
did not have one. Some logic I did not understand
about using the T+B ball instead.

What's the logic?
You mean besides the fact that the string will just jump around randomly all
the time?

Unless, of course, you mount it on the INSIDE of the windscreen.
Then, if you had a weight on it, would work pretty good as a heads up yaw
indicator. But, of course, it would work opposite from a string mounted on
the outside of a glider...

And, on the third hand, it would work on the outside if you were flying a
big daddy twin (excluding the Cessna Skymaster, of course). But since most
of they guys that fly big daddy twins mostly started out in single engine
spam cans, their bad habits are pretty much ingrained.

Eh?

jimk