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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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- June 12, 2019
Happy Fathers Day.
To celebrate Fathers Day, I want to share what I learned from my Father. He soloed in gliders at 15 and has accumulated a lot of hours since then. I bounced around with instructors before I soloed at 14, but I did my most of my power instructing with him in the family Cessna 180, and later in my Cessna 140 I rebuilt.
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Being smooth on the controls. When my brother and I practice