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May 17th 20, 04:10 PM
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Guidelines or formulas for how much water to dump in narrow orweak thermal racing?
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 Other interesting articles by the same author https://keepitsoaring.com/the-speight-papers/ 
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May 18th 20, 03:58 PM
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Guidelines or formulas for how much water to dump in narrow orweak thermal racing?
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!
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May 27th 20, 07:18 AM
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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.
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