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johnfireball:
Hi John,
          Perhaps I'm making the turn too close to the deck (trying to plonk her down immediately after the turn). Maybe a higher approach would be better so allowing lots of down to be applied during the turn and then nudging her onto the deck. Lack of experience I guess.
Thanks John.

erwan:
Hello

I have many hours of real Ka6E and Ka6cr, it 's a very good glider, the stall speed is very low and it is no very easy to do a turn spin, in france no many crash with this glider, it is very easy to pilot, and no surprise with this.

Brian:

--- Quote from: "johnfireball" ---Hi all,
      Having problems flying my DG1000. I keep tipstalling it on final downwind turn to land. My Dad suggests that my turn is too flat and to put in loads of bank. He says the full size ASK6 was notorious for this and many were crashed on finals. Do models behave the same? Hopefully will try again on Saturday. Had some great flying last weekend at killakee with my phase, strongest winds I've yet flown in 30 knots +gusty, was great to learn to fly backwards and so easy to land. Course I broke it eventually but got a good hours flying.
John
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Hi,
Where is your CG ??
Can you or do you use spoileron on landing ??

Brian

johnfireball:
Hi Erwan,
            He claims it was the KA6e with laminar flow wings that showed this characteristic. Anyway the DG is still relatively in one piece so will try again with more bank when conditions permit.
John.

woodstock:
Good advice all round here!  

Any scale model of a high-aspect-ratio modern racing class sailplane will start getting tricky to fly as the wingspan gets much below 4 m.  The chord of these planes' wings are so narrow, there's hardly anything to keep the thing in the air!  In general then, they just don't do slow, or even slower :D !  I have seen a lot of similar comments in various fora about the 2.6 m - ish scale planes, a lot of people have got into trouble on the landing pattern, and it seems flying too slow is the main culprit...

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