Replacing the MKIV yaw string - tips

On 12/2/2012 3:36 PM, wrote:
Snip...
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.

On Sunday, December 2, 2012 8:26:04 PM UTC-5, BobW wrote:
Being a cheap (rhymes with "dastard"), I continued soaring...

Custard?
BobW is a Custard?
Which flavour?

-John
(and I plead encroaching senility, brought about by too much R.A.S., the glider being in storage and impending white stuff on the ground)

"C-FFKQ (42)" wrote in message
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On Sunday, December 2, 2012 8:26:04 PM UTC-5, BobW wrote:
Being a cheap (rhymes with "dastard"), I continued soaring...

Custard?
BobW is a Custard?
Which flavour?

No, that rhymes with "bustard":

The bustard's an exquisite fowl
With almost no reason to howl.
It escapes what would be
Illigitimacy
By the grace of a fortunate vowel.

-P7 unit

On Sunday, December 2, 2012 5:26:04 PM UTC-8, BobW wrote:

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.


After a critical failure, such as a premature yaw string departure, the safe choice would, of course, be to bail out. There will always be the "hero" types that will ride her down I suppose, but consider the risks involved. You might be in a deadly tail spin and not even know it.

Clearly prevention is the best policy. To help reduce the chance of yaw string departure, each MKIV base yarn is injected with a clear polymer adhesive as a final assembly step. This to help prevent the unpleasant "early pull out" failure.

bumper

Your right, if I can't fly this thing straight I'm gettin' the hell out....-/