Pace asked:
One question I have is concerning air brakes!
Are those speed limited or are they good to VNE and beyond. In the Citation I fly the speed brakes are good throughout the speed range.
Is that the same in a glider and would use of speedbrakes be more comfortable for the pilot rather than using high G pulls to slow down.
That of course also depends on how effective the speed brakes are?
The answer depends on the glider model, but in general airbrakes are problematic near VNE. They change the lift distribution, killing lift at the root (the strong part) and transferring the load to the tips (weaker). This is more marked the longer the wings.
A few years ago a 25m (or so) glider broke up (flying in the US or the French Apls, or maybe there were two similar cases) when the pilot oversped ona recovery and deployed the brakes.
If deployed earlier they can be speed limiting, or at least help slow the acceleration.