Originally Posted by
Piper.Classique
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I hope you agree with me that it's a lot easier to put a glider in a field than it is a light aircraft with a dead engine which was the main point of my post.
Very definitely. You've got so much more glide performance in a glider that if you don't use the airbrakes you probably won't land on the airfield, even if the rest of the circuit is exactly right. Whereas with a power engine off pattern, there's much less flexibility.
Paul