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Flying in turbulence
You can help your glider to avoid dierent collapses in turbulence -
you must y actively for it. When the glider pitches forward - use the
brakes to slow it, if it goes back - release brakes. These movements
can be symmetric or asymmetric.
Let us remind you once again that you should be very careful choos-
ing the weather to y.
Descent Techniques
Spiral dive
When you hold either brake down for a long time, the glider goes
into a fast sharp turn and loses a lot of height. The rotation axis can
be somewhere between the pilot and the wing. The sink rate could
be more than 15 m/sec. To get out of the spiral dive you must release
the inner brake. Mind that Space may take up to two more turns after
releasing the brake.
While spiral diving, the pilot experiences considerable overload up to
3 – 4g, so you can lose orientation.
B-stall
It’s possible to use B-stall for quick descent on Space, but we do not
recommend it, because wings with high aspect ratio are oen unsta-
ble in B-stall.
Landing
In small winds, when you have 1-2 meters to the ground, you should
pull the brakes gently to your arms’ full length, so that you put your
Space in stall at a height of about 0.2 -- 0.5 m and the horizontal
speed is zero.
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