Replacing the MKIV yaw string - tips

On 12/2/2012 3:36 PM, wrote:
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Tape that bothersome loose end down. Why didn’t I think of that!
Thanks, Bumper. In addition to great products, your customer support is
unequalled. I also appreciate learning it’s okay to tell the MKIV to
“straighten up and fly right”. Silly me. I thought that’s what it
was telling me. Anyway, with that cleared up, now I can concentrate on
why my flights are always so much slower that everybody else’s.



Michael

Seriously now, any tips on how to fly without a yaw string should our
beloved MKIV high tech device fail?


Hmmm... Assuming this is a serious question, in the days before even the MKI
was available, I experienced total yaw string failure. More than once,
actually, on ships ranging from 1-26 (captured by canopy rail) to 15-meter
glass (adhesive failure...and the tape was hardly even 10 years old!).

Being a cheap (rhymes with "dastard"), I continued soaring, coordinating by
feel and sound. Easy if you have a noisy ship. (Sorry if this costs you future
sales, Bumper!)

Bob - I plead "winter", Yr'onner! - W.