wrote:
On Aug 20, 4:28 pm, Jeremy Zawodny wrote:
Being able to play with all the ballast weights in the tail is nice to
have, but for a club I sometimes think it's an unnecessary complexity...

Especially when the tail ballast box cover falls off in flight. But
blame there is shared between poor design and more importantly poor
preflight inspection -- it happened with me as PIC and Jeremy as my
passenger :-(.

I wasn't going to bring that up, but since you did...

I'm amazed that none of the weights came out of the box. I'm sure we
had some left turns along with the right turns on that flight. So it
either came off very late, or the design took that possibility into
account. There's a bit of a groove in the box, IIRC. But I'm still
impressed.

Jeremy