Originally Posted by
mary meagher
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PPS....Ridger, not always good to sideslip a glider....some will, some bite.
Know your type. The Pegasus bites, and I also think the ASW15 is unhappy to sideslip; also, can you imagine sideslipping a glider with a 22 meter wingspan?
Pegase is fine so long as it's without airbrakes - they create turbulence that in a side-slip blankets the tail so the nose drops. As to 22m span - I know a couple of folks that have side-slipped a 25m span. Obviously you need to be out of it far enough above the ground...