At 04:04 PM 13/06/2008, you wrote:
>
> Practising sideslips can be a good idea in case one's airbrakes are
> jammed for whatever reason. There are many anecdotes of people
> forgetting to remove the tape from airbrakes after leaving them taped up
> overnight...
So we forget to do a proper daily inspection AND don't do a proper
control check before takeoff for this to happen. We don't fly in
cloud so icing is unlikely. Seems nothing has been learned since the
Libelle accident back in about 1979 in WA.
Maybe the glider should be derigged in its trailer if the weather is
going to be such that the brakes need taping up?
No big deal with a good trailer and fittings by which I don't mean
the German trailers and their clones with the poxy fittings that I see around.
Are the divebrakes really more likely to fail than the elevator,
rudder or ailerons?
Do we practice that? For that matter should we practice flying by
flapping our arms if the wings fall off?
Sideslips are no big deal but you need to be careful that you don't
hit the wingtip on the ground and that you don't land
sideways. Practice at altitude first.
I guess the instructor and student at a Queensland club a while ago
who wrote off a Twin Astir can tell you about that.
Mike
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