On Wed, 08 Apr 2015 23:36:11 -0700, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:

Maybe someone else could add a few comments about what they would have
done and anything else I could learn from this. Also, share your own
story so we might all learn.

Me again.

When I bought my Libelle the club insisted that we weigh it before I flew
it: probably just as well, as the CG was pretty much smack on the rear
limit.

Closer inspection (taking the rudder off) found 800g of lead sheet bolted
to the fin post and with every sign of having been there for some time:
there was some paint overspray on the lead and the logbook showed that
the last work done on the rear fuselage was prior to the glider being
laid up for a year or two. After that it had its 3000 hour inspection and
was then flown for a year by its previous owner. I took the lead out. A
re-weighing then showed the CG to be in the middle of the permitted
range. A routine re-weighing last year (7 year check) showed the CG is
still in the middle of the range.


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