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how much water ballast to use

  1. Water Ballast

    Optimize Water Ballast in 5 Steps

    February 21, 2019

    How much water ballast should you use on any given day? This is not an all-or-nothing type of tool. Some pilots will takeoff full every day and dump down in timed increments (20 seconds, for example). However, if you have a stock water system, the tail ballast will dump at a faster ratio, meaning it will drain the tail before the wings are empty, moving the CG forward as you dump. So you might still

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