Originally Posted by
oscarh
Fantastic
!
Could anybody here enlighten me as to the technique of descending a glider from that altitude with all the potential aerodynamic problems.
Thanks.
Oscar.
To descend is quite simple, you pull the airbrakes. The time it takes however is another question..
Another technique , when you are in the mountain waves, which they were obviously, is to look for the " down " side of the wave, and there it can go very fast....