Originally Posted by
WB627
I remember using the spoilers on a Mk 3 at Kenley in 1973. I also remember my second solo where I got rather a lot of height off the winch and deployed the spoilers as soon as I released the cable, but I was still going up rather quickly
. It wasn't until was half way down the down wind leg that I started loosing height and I had to extend before turning crosswind, as I was still too high
. Spoilers open all the way from cable release until just before touch down; Best of my three solos
The least said of my fist solo when I disappeared behind a line of trees on the down wind leg, the better
.
As they say, I learnt about flying from that.
The best advice I was ever given was use your own judgement,,'if we're using the short runway and your high over the hedge what the (naughty word) do you think the spoliers are for. Use the buggers I don't like extracting gliders from the boundary hedge