total energy probes
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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
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- June 28, 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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