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September 12th 03, 02:19 AM
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Kevin,
What we appear to be seeing here is how strong preconceptions and/or expectations can override actual events. I could have sworn I would get a better zoom with ballast, but I now realize that it doesn't make sense. And I know all about Gallileo's experiment - I surprized my 15 year old daugher with it just a few weeks ago. But not having put much thought into it, I didn't connect the two. Amazing, you can learn something on RAS, occasionally! It would be fun to poll the general soaring population about this - I asked a really good pilot friend about this and his immediate answer was "Of course you will go higher with water". Now, I still have a gut feeling that there are some other forces acting that make it seem that a ballasted pullup goes higher - because it sure feels like it does! Must have something to do with Flat Earth Theory.... Kirk 66 
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