I have seen Ralph Jones (the U.K. Schempp agent) land his big Nimbi full of
water many times on Lasham's main runway during comps.

W.J. (Bill) Dean (U.K.).
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"Andy Durbin" wrote in message
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Pete Zeugma wrote: Would you also want to practice landing a glider
full up with ballast as well?


I do not practice landing with water ballast but I have landed both my
ASW-19b and my ASW-28 ballasted. All cases were landings for contest
"re-lights". The max landing weight for both gliders equals the max
gross weight and there is no prohibition on landing ballasted.

Andy