Side slip or what ?
A question to the well composed instructors out there. I got kindly dragged into doing a weeks gliding. Normally feeling jet blast i thought it may be an intersting change but one aspect has failed my clear lack of areodynamic understanding.
side slipping a glider i did what is expected but then got asked to pull the stick right back and hold it. i suspected a stall was on it's way but no. So my question is even though the glider has a pitch up attitude, full back stick and unco-ordinated, why doesn't it loose airspeed /stall because it seems to keep going happy as larry. The AOA seems high. No glider instructor came close to helping me understand it....just the classic murmour of .....bloody propellor heads!
If anyone can answer our query in plain english i would be most gratefull.