{"id":366,"date":"2010-08-22T06:43:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T13:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=366"},"modified":"2010-08-22T06:43:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T13:43:09","slug":"glider-tow-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"Glider tow tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the powerful Pawnee the p-factor under full power is quite prominent and requires a lot of rudder input to keep the ball centered. This takes quite a toll out of the pilot over the whole day. The glider can help by off-setting its flight path on the rope off center to the left.<br \/>\nOur 180hp Cessna 152 requires a lot of elevator pull to keep the climb. The glider can help by assuming the low tow position below the wake and pulling the tail down a little bit by doing so.<br \/>\nBoth techniques help reducing the tow pilots load and make the flights more pleasant. It makes a big difference over the length of a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the powerful Pawnee the p-factor under full power is quite prominent and requires a lot of rudder input to keep the ball centered. This takes quite a toll out of the pilot over the whole day. The glider can help by off-setting its flight path on the rope off center to the left. Our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=366\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Glider tow tricks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}