A Tale of Two Takeoffs

On Saturday, June 17, 2017 at 4:25:51 PM UTC-4, Echo wrote:
My only point against teaching it is the complexity it adds to a launch, when there's already a lot going on and plenty to be aware of. I can see it needs to be muscle memory. Thanks for the explanation.

I don't know of anyone who teaches it. I watched other pilots do it and spoke with them, then tried it myself. It works on my ASW 24.

BTW, I cycle the dive brakes open and closed (without locking them) as the slack comes out of the rope to let the wing runner know I haven't simply forgotten to lock them. Once I have aileron authority, I close and lock them and then focus on lifting off smoothly. Yes, it's one more motion. But I flew a flapped ship for a long time and lowering the flaps to lift off is a little bit analogous, although the lever moves in the opposite direction.

Gary, it's possible you didn't find it necessary because the Pegasus wing may have had a lower angle of incidence than some other Standard Class gliders. I seem to recall reading or hearing that although I can't find any references.

Chip Bearden
"JB"