Avoiding Vne

must have slipped my notice that airbrakes on 'modern
low drag gliders' were speed limiting. my speed stays
pretty much constant at full travel. notwithstanding
that, why on earth would you want to increase your
sink rate further than that caused by the spin in the
first place. sounds like a death wish to me!

do what you were taught in your spin training, its
a recovery drill not a starting pint to experiment
with your life and possibly the life of your passenger/pupil.

At 09:36 25 March 2004, Erik Braun wrote:
K.P. Termaat wrote:
Yesterday evening I talked with a friend about avoiding
excessive speed when
recovering from a spin in a modern low drag glider
with the somewhat larger
span.
He came up with the idea of pulling the airbrakes
when still recovering from
the rotating mode. I am not sure this can be done
without disturbing the
recovering action or without hurting the glider.
Any comment will appreciated.

Karel, NL



Pulling the airbrakes is what most handbooks say on
this subject. But if
you're already very fast I'd do this carefully.

Pete Zeugma wrote:

must have slipped my notice that airbrakes on 'modern
low drag gliders' were speed limiting. my speed stays
pretty much constant at full travel.

Of course, if the glider is already running at Vne I wouldn't pull the
airbrakes but try to recover really carefully. But up to ~220kmh, I'd do
this, because they DO produce a big drag an make the glider slower (in
my experience at least, which doesn't include a Nimbus or the other big
ones).

Erik