Pitts S2A ballast

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Mamiss71

New Member

Jun 12, 2015

Hello all,

We have a new member of our UK based Pitts S2A group, and she is a diminutive 110lbs! A quick weight and balance check shows that she needs up to 40 lbs of ballast to be able to fly solo inside the forward c of g limit.

Has anyone had experience of this problem, I'd be interested to hear how it was solved.

An offer of multiple group funded visits to the Golden Arches was politely declined!

Many thanks