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Old 13th Jan 2003, 11:33
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Bre901

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About gliders (a bit off topic) : there have been intensive discussions some years ago, in the french gliding instructors community, about the use of the spoiler lever as a "throttle".

The before last version of the student's handbook had turned the procedure upside down, using the stick to control the glide angle and the spoiler lever to control velocity. Although this can work, it has been canceled in the last version, mainly because that put an extra stress on the student in a rather critical phase, making him/her switch to another control mode for the stick.

The analogy with the throttle has also been dropped, because glider spoilers (at least Schemp-Hirt type ones) act as much on lift and drag, whereas the throttle acts only on traction (aka anti-drag - No need to start dicussing about second order effects as propeller axis offset and flow changes on the wing induced by power changes). Another reason to drop the analogy with the throttle is probably related to some difficulties glider pilots have experienced with go-arounds
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