Does anyone know why this happened? :)
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by theo
8 years ago
Lupus is right, that is actually a pretty comon synchro incident which happened to a lot of pilot with various consequences from lucky winners to people falling in the lines of their partners. When both touches it kills the flow on the upper side of the wing, basically the wing cannot fly anymore, if you keep the touch one glider will simply stop to fly and stall, putting any brake impulse will make the stall harder. That is why you will never see a synchro team keep a touch, they rather stay very close without touching, or the will slightly touch and go and touch again.
Very similar happend to me and my friend. When you had the touch, the flow got off from the canopy, making it stall and any input makes the wing spin. What we were told by more experience pilots is to let the break go all the way up (don't break it), so it has less chance to stall in these cases.
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Lupus is right, that is actually a pretty comon synchro incident which happened to a lot of pilot with various consequences from lucky winners to people falling in the lines of their partners. When both touches it kills the flow on the upper side of the wing, basically the wing cannot fly anymore, if you keep the touch one glider will simply stop to fly and stall, putting any brake impulse will make the stall harder. That is why you will never see a synchro team keep a touch, they rather stay very close without touching, or the will slightly touch and go and touch again.
Looks great. You should try to get it consistently. Maybe both at the same time.
Very similar happend to me and my friend. When you had the touch, the flow got off from the canopy, making it stall and any input makes the wing spin. What we were told by more experience pilots is to let the break go all the way up (don't break it), so it has less chance to stall in these cases.