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January 19th 18, 02:06 PM
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Looping a Standard Cirrus
On Friday, 19 January 2018 15:52:54 UTC+2, Andrew Ainslie wrote:
I never understand why people loop gliders designed for competition. Grab a club 21 or Grob or something less slippery with a bigger spar and have fun with that. Or even better, pay to go up in a Decathlon with an instructor and actually learn something in the process. All that looping a slippery glider gets you is an awful butt-clenching sense of "Oh **** Oh **** Oh **** Oh **** Oh ****" as your eyes jump between the bending wings and the clockwise acceleration of the ASI. Looping a competition glider makes as much sense as turning the engine off on a Pawnee and trying to soar it. In both cases, you're using the wrong tool for the job. Because it's fun, if done with glider that is rated for aerobatics, and training to avoid that "oh ****". 
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