On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 5:30:05 PM UTC-8, Don Johnstone wrote:
At 23:07 11 February 2015, wrote:
On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 6:58:58 PM UTC-8,
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If you inadvertently fly into the yellow range and kiss the red range,
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d you get into the high speed vibration, what is the best way to slow
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e the wings depart the glider. My sense is to reach for the spoilers and
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lowly extend to slow. Any opinions on that matter?

Thanks all for your input. The senario as stated in my quest has
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to me several times whilst flying Condor - Glider flight Simulation
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e. I've been deploying spoilers to slow down but that I would ask this
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up in case it happens in a real glider. Your inputs, as I suspected, are
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ell thought out and are convincing. My thoughts to control highspeed
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t (overspeed flight) will be pitch.

My reluctance to recommend the spoilers is mainly, but not only, for
aerodynamic reasons, a scaphoid fracture is extremely painful, which is
best avoided unless faced with a life or death situation. The very loud
bang as the airbrakes hit the stop is more than a bit scary as well.


I have extended the spoilers at over 100 knots IAS at 18,000 ft a few times (mainly to get out from under clouds) and I brace myself and wince with a death grip on the handle when I do it. Stuff is going to fly around and my head is probably going to hit the canopy. I sure wouldn't want to be doing that while the wings were fluttering.