Eric Greenwell wrote in message It is confusing! Here's what happens, simplified:

*The horizontal stabilizer (with the flap we call the "elevator") is
pushing down (at least at "higher" speeds - maybe not at 60 knots -
dependes on the glider)
*You push the stick forward
*the elevator flap goes down
*this _reduces_ the downward force of the horizontal stabilizer, but
doesn't elimanate it
*this allows the tail to rise

There is more to it than that, of course.

If it is confusing it is only because a previous poster made specific
reference to elevator forces when perhaps they meant the net force
acting on the horizontal stabilizer.

Parts is parts but they all have names.

Andy