See what happens if you go too fast in a KR? You land sometime in the next month. KR's really ARE time machines! Cheers. Peter Bancks.
Mark Langford wrote: > > Split flaps have as much lift as plain flaps...so the drag is free! That's > why split flaps are better than a belly board, in my humble opinion, > allowing slower and therefore safer landing speeds. The slower stall speed > they allow also reduces the likelihood of stall/spin accidents during the > turn to base (assuming the same speeds were used in both cases). Belly > boards are easy to implement, and are far better than nothing, but the split > flap solution is simply better from a landing and stall speed standpoint. > I've got 800 hours on my split flaps, and I love 'em... >
