flyback / tailslide
Posted 2008 March 24 by gambit
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hello everybody
don´t know if this matter was discussed here before, but didn´t find any about it...
in my last couple of flights i practiced to do turns while tailsliding. it worked pretty well when i shifted my weight and kept the brakes symetrically. but after about 180° degrees of a slow turn the glider started to accelerate in a steeper turn. i got scared and stopped at this point, but i had the idea that it might be possible to get in a kind of backwards spiral. (i already started to feel some g-forces). if possible this might be intersting lead in for other manuevers. if you could really accelerate in this flyback spiral and let the glider shoot in the right moment, a sat or something like this might be the result. does anyone have experience on this or thought about it?
best regards and thanks for any answer
Comments
hi guys
thank you for your answers. i agree that it may be better to go on over water... anyway i can not imagine clear enough what might happen, so i am not keen to do more experiments over ground. but if i find some system in it this summer, i´ll let you know.
gambit
It is possible to spiral backwards. I've seen that in some SIV courses where a few pilots where twisted in fullstall. The spirals seemed very stable and fast :-P
cheers big ears
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It is stange... maybe it will accelerate into a turn, but i think it's not possible to spiral backward in a tailslide configuration... i think you will get a big collapse and/or cravates soon.
Try it over water... maybe you will find a new manuver :)
Lupus