If you needed tip washout I think there is some other problem going
on. Could you post a picture of your glider? What does it weigh?
The basic trim scheme for a flapper is a lot like any other glider.
Trim the glide first, then throw it fairly hard straight ahead. If the
incidence is right it will either fly level for a ways and then
transition to glide or it will climb slightly and then transition. A
lot of climb means you have too much incidence. If it dives you don't
have enough incidence.
I fly Cat I gliders in a right-right pattern - mostly because Cat I
sites are usually too small to fly an S turn at the top. Kurt
mentioned needing a strong fuse to keep the glider from bunting at
high speed. I prefer a little bit of bunt in my low celing gliders. It
gives me a couple of seconds of high speed flight at the top of the
climb before slowing down to glide speed. Chris Goins Cat I record
glider had a great bunt at the very top of the site and lost close to
zero altitude in the transition to glide.
My 49 second flight in the postal was done with a glider that had to
be launched at about a 100 degree angle (10 degrees past vertical) so
that the bunt would happen at the right altitude. Unfortunately this
glider had a lot of flap damage before we went to Kent and it refused
to cooperate there.
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