Good morning “D” It appears that you have indeed looked in the wrong places. By looking at “Advanced Soaring Made Easy” you would have found the following:
Pilots new to water ballast should realise that partly ballasted gliders tend to create problems on take off due to sloshing of water. For this reason it might be a good idea to increase the amount of water in small increments and slowly get used to the new behaviour of the glider. Only then should we think about going to the maximum legal limit. Kind regards to all Bernard > On 28 Aug 2017, at 8:16 am, DMcD <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Without doubt the use of water ballast introduced a whole new dimension >>> to gliding, as, just co-incidentally Mike B mentioned in a concurrent post. >>> However it use is something that should never be treated lightly [groan]. > > It's interesting that there's nothing in basic gliding knowledge about > this then. > > Yes, ballast is perhaps not basic but I've seen people with a handful > of hours over a C cert. putting ballast in gliders almost as soon as > they were endorsed for the type. > > There's little or nothing in any book or manual I have read on > gliding. Maybe I looked in the wrong place. > > D > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
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