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    Gliding Top Tips & Tricks, Part 2

    June 29, 2023

    I had a technical discussion with a sailplane designer recently about my desire to have a retractable tailwheel on my Ventus 3TS.  His reply was, if my glider has an LD of 50.37:1 and yours has 50:1, do you know how long it would take to find a difference of 10m?  The answer is 40min!  This means that we have both landed out before we both see a difference of 10m from 1000m agl..  

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