Monthly Archives: April 2026
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- April 22, 2026
Ask a group of glider pilots about flap settings, and you’ll get a wide range of answers: numbers, rules of thumb, even “seat-of-the-pants” instincts. All are valid to a certain degree, but the real skill lies not in memorising positions, but in understanding the why and how we move between them.
Think of flaps less as fixed settings and more as a continuous control of wing shape. In slow, rising
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- April 07, 2026
Every club or competition seems to have the same quiet tradition: someone, somewhere, is not flying today because of something small.
It's rarely dramatic. No broken wings or wild landouts. More often it's a flat tyre discovered at rigging, or a slightly bent TE probe that "might be okay"… that's of course, until it isn't. The kind of issue that doesn't feel important - right up until it cancels your