I feel your pain. I've personally been thru all the problems you're
talking about. I hope today works out better. And if my advice cuts
your flight times in half then maybe you shouldn't use it anymore!
On 3/16/2013 1:28 PM, joor gawt wrote:
>
> As a coach with zero experience, in gliders I can tell you that it is
> near impossible to get a great glide without help an experienced mentor.
>
> There are too many variables to gliders and you canx27;t just change
> one. You have to at least make two changes. Example, flap and nose
> weight. Then with those two it is likely that launch has changed.
>
> Even more frustrating is the changes have to very small. With kids
> small changes and patience are hard to come by.
>
> Twice now we have had gliders that do over 30 seconds in a gym with a
> 30 foot ceiling only to lose that magic combination.
>
> A glider that did 34 seconds fusalage broke. We repaired it and it was
> down to 26 seconds. We followed your advice on hip pockets and its
> below 16. There is just something we donx27;t understand. Right now it
> is 100% luck at we get a great glide.
>
> The kids will put in another 8 hour day today trying to get the glide
> times back up to be competitive at the ceiling climb. They have
> already spent 100s of hours on gliders since October.
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From: * William Gowen <wdgowen_at_gmail.com>;
> *To: * <Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com>;
> *Subject: * [Indoor_Construction] SO GA state finals
> *Sent: * Sat, Mar 16, 2013 4:51:55 PM
>
> Sebastian did a good job at the state finals today with a two flight
> total of about 54 seconds. I don't know how he placed yet. I stayed
> for about an hour after he flew and didn't see any glider flights
> longer than a few seconds. There were several kit gliders that looked
> nice but the kids had no idea how to make them fly. I guess this isn't
> too surprising when you consider that there are no low ceiling indoor
> glider fliers in this area other than me.
>
>
Received on Sat Mar 16 2013 - 13:18:18 CET
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