This is one of those areas, such as hard vs. soft tow release, square
vs. cut corner pattern, side slip vs. crab, how to remove slack in tow
line, etc. where every instructor is likely to have a different opinion
on what is the right way to do it. Best to just follow your intructors
orders, then do what you want after you get your ticket.


Mitty wrote:
I am learning to fly a Blanik L-23 and my instructor is telling me to
"fly it on" with no flare.

1) I am commercial/instrument rated with somewhere north of 1000 ASEL
and a few ASES landings in my logbook. I am _programmed_ to flare.
:-) To not flare is very hard for me.

2) The Blanik AFM refers to flaring on landing.

3) The instructor is very concerned about the fragility of the tail
wheel, so possibly this is the reason for his technique.

So ... to flare or not? When solo, I mean.

BTW, this is pretty neat stuff. I wish my first few hours of training
had been in a glider. Certainly I would have learned to use the
rudder much sooner!