Twisted,
Where was your quote from?
It looked like from the NPPL stuff, which as I posted before applies to UK licences - not international ones (unless you want to use the international one to get a NPPL issued).
DFC
I didn't mean you could fly a SSDR without a licence, I just pointed out that conversion training might not really be practical.
Say you wanted to fly a twin-engined single seat and now deregulated Lazair, like mine. No point in taking some twin-engined time, since it is the only twin-engined microlight - and with a stall speed of about 19 statute mph doing time in a light twin wouldn't be much use!
It also has ruddervators, four wheels! and a few other quirks!
So what would you teach a light aircraft pilot so as he could fly it? You can have a chat, but that is about it!
Back to Twisted and 912.
Pull the bar back on a weighshift and you'll notice the houses getting bigger alright! I can increase sink rate on approach from 600ft to 1200 plus a minute this way, and also increase airspeed.
On a Quantum 912 and earlier draggier flexies, can be a good way to get rid of excess height on approach. Doesn't work for losing excess height on the Quik since the airframe is not so draggy, so you lose the height but then fly along the ground for ever trying to shed the airspeed!
Basically, in flexwings, if at a given power setting you ease the bar forwards, very gently, you get a reduction in airspeed, a possible gain in height (in a Quantum, yes, in a Flash 2 Alpha, no) and the horizon remains exactly where it is. Bit strange for three-axis people!
But if you move the bar back, the nose will lower, airspeed will increase and
height will reduce.
Generally, it is summed up as move bar, change in attitude followed by change in airspeed and change in height.
Where can you find how to fly flexies in a book?
Most instructors have notes they give thier students. Paul Dewhurst - world microlight chmpion many times in many classes - has his booklet for sale from Flylight at Sywell. They sell on line at -
http://www.flylight.co.uk/shop/books.htm
Very best,
XA