All I know about this is what you post but there are a couple of questions
that occur to me:

Did the CFI realise that the glider was about to enter a spin after the
rope break at 300'?

If he was aware that the glider was about to spin did did he then let the
P2 continue into a spin? At 300'?

Chris

At 00:49 04 March 2018, son_of_flubber wrote:
On Saturday, March 3, 2018 at 6:30:09 AM UTC-5, soarin wrote:
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On a BFR flight in the spring of 2013, I sat in the back seat of a Grob
1=
03
as one of our most respected high time xc pilots silently dealt with
what
should have been a simple (simulated) spoilers failed full open
landing.

Back in 2011, I was a student glider pilot. Standing on the field I
watche=
d 'one of our most respected high time xc pilots' fail to respond
correctly=
to a 'simulated rope break' at 300 AGL during his Flight Review. I
watche=
d the glider enter an incipient spin and disappear behind a line of
trees.
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To my untrained eye, it looked to be flying straight down.=20

The CFI recovered from the dive at the very last second, flared, rolled
uph=
ill about 50 feet, and put a wing tip down to ground loop (to avert
collisi=
on with an immovable object). Wing spar bent. No injuries. That was
the
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pilot-under-review's last flight in a glider.

I will probably never be a respected high time XC pilot, but when it
comes
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time hang up my wings, I sincerely hope that I quit BEFORE I kill a
flight
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instructor, a tow pilot, or anyone else.