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Old May 27th 20, 07:18 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Guidelines or formulas for how much water to dump in narrow orweak thermal racing?

On Monday, May 18, 2020 at 7:58:26 AM UTC-7, Charles Ethridge wrote:
On Sunday, May 17, 2020 at 11:10:25 AM UTC-4, Jax wrote:
Here is a paper about flying with water, it is for lower performance gliders but the concepts remain the same.

https://keepitsoaring.com/wp-content...er_ballast.pdf


Wow! Excellent article! Adds a lot of "why" to the "what". I need to re-read it a few times to fully absorb. I will read his other articles you link as well.

Thanks!


Keep the water until you are about to landout.