gcarter
Contributor
This may sound basic to some, but I don't understand it - I'm a numbers guy, not a science geek.
In reading a number of posts, I see people talking about switching from a jacket to a BP/W to get more lift because they are going from wet to dry and need to add more weight, or changing the wing for one with greater lift.
If you are weighted to neutral +/- with an empty bladder, and if you can ditch your weight to make you positively bouyant, what difference would adding an additional 10 lbs of lift make? IOW, what are you actually acheiving? I am sure this will be a forehead slapper when I see the answwer, but there are some dots not connecting for me.
TIA
In reading a number of posts, I see people talking about switching from a jacket to a BP/W to get more lift because they are going from wet to dry and need to add more weight, or changing the wing for one with greater lift.
If you are weighted to neutral +/- with an empty bladder, and if you can ditch your weight to make you positively bouyant, what difference would adding an additional 10 lbs of lift make? IOW, what are you actually acheiving? I am sure this will be a forehead slapper when I see the answwer, but there are some dots not connecting for me.
TIA