Yes, recovery is the same for water ballast. It will require
significantly more altitude, and speed at the bottom of the dive will
be higher. Most manuals add 40% greater altitude loss and 25% greater
speed. Partial ballast should not affect recovery early in the spin,
but it would be inadvisable to continue a spin through several
rotations with 1/2 full ballast tanks.

If you have uneven water ballast (result of a frozen dump valve or
leak), you must avoid stalling altogether.


"303pilot" brentUNDERSCOREsullivanATbmcDOTcom wrote in message ...
Good. We all agree not to intentionally spin a ballasted glider.
But if it should happen, does the correct response change in any way?
As all of our training is in unballasted ships AND we tend to sink to the
level of our training rather than rise to the occaision, I suspect most of
us would do what we've been taught to do in unballasted ships. Would this
be the right response?