Slip slidin' away.

On Sunday, September 8, 2013 9:06:17 PM UTC-4, Frank Whiteley wrote:

No barefooting at our glider port in Colorado, nor sandals. The little ball cactus are buggers and it's not rare to have someone hooking up the CG hook during winch launching kneel on one. They hide in the buffalo grass. It's been about five years since a visiting CAP member managed to get bit by a rattler, but he was tempting fate also.



Frank Whiteley

Yikes. Fires, cacti, and rattlesnakes. I guess the lift is worth it.

"Not in New Mexico I wager"

You got that right! Where I fly the airfield is 128 ft. ASL, we spend a lot of time at or below ridge heights of 4000-6000 feet ASL and to go above 12,500 you need permission from ATC - which is seldom granted. The cockpit is usually a comfortable shirtsleeve temperature - except during the summer on a day with weak lift where you end up sweating buckets as you scratch away at low speed below 3000 for the whole flight.

But you don't have cacti and rattle snakes to worry about!


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"Not in New Mexico I wager"

You got that right! Where I fly the airfield is 128 ft. ASL, we spend a lot
of time at or below ridge heights of 4000-6000 feet ASL and to go above
12,500 you need permission from ATC - which is seldom granted. The cockpit
is usually a comfortable shirtsleeve temperature - except during the summer
on a day with weak lift where you end up sweating buckets as you scratch
away at low speed below 3000 for the whole flight.

Well, just for the hell of it I tried pulling aft on one rudder pedal while not touching the other when in flight. On my 15B at least the pedal springs don't deflect the rudder much at all at least at around 45 knots.

It was a day with strong lift to 4000 on one mountain and not much else anywhere else so in lieu of going anywhere I satisfied my curiosity about the rudder, did a number of spins and stalls etc. and finished up with a no airbrake landing - just in case I ever buy that ASW-12 I've always dreamed of:-)

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and finished up with a no
airbrake landing - just in case I ever buy that ASW-12 I've always dreamed
of:-)



The ASW-12: Now that's a real man's glider!