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high or down low (see above), but I like to think of “WHERE
I will put my hands.” Do I move the left one first, or the right?
Am I going to try to move one hand and then the other right
after, or maybe fly an extended period of the approach with
one hand up and keep the other on the basetube? There are a
lot of options here, and each has its situation. The big picture
of what we need to accomplish never changes—we control the
glider through an approach, carrying speed into a groundskim, and flare to stop our forward motion. What changes on
nearly every flight and landing is what we need to do in order
to accomplish that, and that is why there is no one way for all
landings.
WHY we transition seems obvious, but isn’t. Most think
we need to ge