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Hangar Flying / Re: Nose Ballast with O-320
« on: February 03, 2005, 01:24:18 PM »
Hank,
With my original nose O-320 with starter I ended up with about 12lbs in the nose. That has been reduced over the years as I have changed things around and added stuff up front that offsets it.
Advice given by others is quite right that you will have to determine for your own plane with a thorough W&B before flight. I would not suggest sealing up the ballast as you mentioned just from the standpoint of being able to access it in the future as you add or remove equipment etc.
You might want to add a nice nose retract system sometime and that could offset all the ballast.
With my original nose O-320 with starter I ended up with about 12lbs in the nose. That has been reduced over the years as I have changed things around and added stuff up front that offsets it.
Advice given by others is quite right that you will have to determine for your own plane with a thorough W&B before flight. I would not suggest sealing up the ballast as you mentioned just from the standpoint of being able to access it in the future as you add or remove equipment etc.
You might want to add a nice nose retract system sometime and that could offset all the ballast.
Quote from: "Hank Clark"
Somebody stuck an O-320 on my Long EZ project before I got ahold of it. Not complaining mind you, but I'd like just one of you sister ship owners to tell me how much lead shot I'll have to stuff into the nose. This is the standard plans nose.....
I want to hollow out some foam around the pitot and refill with lead shot before we paint . Hoping to keep the electric starter and aluminum spinner. Perhaps I'm dreaming.... :roll: