"Bruce" wrote in message
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My thoughts are that you need to open the brakes to balance the drag and
lift asymmetry. Then you can fly the aircraft through the resulting
descending roll and recover.

In the case I am talking about, that option was not available. One spoiler
stayed connected to the linkage and fully operable while a broken bracket
had effectively disconnected the other one, leaving it closed. The only was
to return the glider to balance flight was to close the spoilers. (Yes, a
1-spoiler slip may have been possible, but that is a lot to figure out when
you are on downwind and are suddenly presented with a strange control
situation).

Vaughn