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Figure 30
Prior to the landing flare your body position should be
generally upright, but slightly inclined forward, with
your head and shoulders forward of your hips and your
legs and feet trailing slightly behind.
Many pilots make the mistake of trying to get too
upright at this stage of the landing, which actually
reduces your flare authority and makes it harder to
land on your feet. Your hands should be at shoulder
width and shoulder height on the uprights (Fig.30).
You should be relaxed, with a light grip on the bar, and
your weight should be fully supported in your harness
and not at all by your arms. (If your harness does not
allow you to hang in the proper semi-upright landing
position “hands off,” without supporting your weight on
the control bar, you will have a lot more difficulty
making good landings).
We wish you many happy landings!
COMBAT-C BREAKDOWN
Break down of the glider is the reverse of assembly.
1. Start with the VG set full loose. Remove the nosecone. Remove the tail. Remove any instruments.
2. Remove the undersurface battens. Unzip the sprog access zippers all the way to the leading edge end of the
zippers and put out the inboard and outboard sprogs. Remove the tip folded battens and the four shortest battens
from the outboard section of the sail. Roll the outboard section of the sail and put the outboard wing tip bags on
(Fig.31).
Figure 31 Figure 32
3. De-tension the crossbar sweep wire and let the wings fold in slightly.
4. Unzip the bottom surface central zipper and take the protecting out so when the glider is folded they protect the
sail from contact with the control bar apex fittings (Fig.32).
5. Remove the remaining battens except the top battens #1. Put the battens into the batten bag.
6. Close the keel tube cover zipper.
7. Fold the wings all the way in to the keel pulling the sail over the top of the leading edges. At each wingtip, remove
the tip cover bag. At this time you should be able to dismount the front ends of the root battens from the keel tube.
Install the protective pad and sock over the rear wire junction pin and the rear end of the keel.
CAUTION
Take care that the shackle of the crossbar sweep wire doesn’t get caught when entering into the
sail!
8. Fold the sprogs against the leading edge towards the tip. Make sure the sprog zippers are fully open.
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