Indeed. My club requires 10 flights empty in the glider in question before trying out with water. I think there's a numberof hours proscribed too so that someone doesn't just circuit bash to get the minimums. I don't have the ops manual handy to confirm that. We also usually recommend starting with water in the lower end gliders like the Astir before moving up to the big toys like the DG1000.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." <[email protected]> To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 08:52:10 +0930 Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] [gfaforum] RE: water bags and tanks 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 g et 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] [1]> 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] [2] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring Links: ------ [1] mailto:[email protected] [2] mailto:[email protected]
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