So far, I've been intentionnaly spinning almost all flapped gliders I flew (about two dozends), and putting flaps to full negative *always* helps to end the spin earlier. Especially close to the ground this is very important, as every fractions of a second counts. Many years ago, when I did an unintenional spin for stupid reasons close to the ground, the negative flaps saved my live.


At 12:00 04 June 2015, Tango Eight wrote:
I'm very glad this worked out.

But I have my doubts about the wisdom of using negative flaps for stall
recovery, especially close to the ground. I don't think that this can be
said to be a good practice in general and I would recommend heartily
against in my own ASW-20B.

-Evan Ludeman / T8