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Old 30th May 2007, 10:35
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IO540
 
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One way to deliberately worsen one's glide performance is by doing S-turns. These are easy and you can do them in (probably) any aircraft type.

Another way is a sideslip, but you can't do that in some types.

If you have a CS prop, setting it to fully-fine will also worsen glide performance.
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