Ballast dump time Discus

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Maybe someday I'll solve the mystery of how 2 liters of water gets into
the
nose of my Nimbus 2C when dumping ballast. All possible tubes are
plugged
and the under seat area and around the wheel box is always dry. The only
wet area is the foot wells.

Bill Daniels-


Bill-

Sounds like a pee tube problem. Try "Depends."

Mark


A quite predictable response, Mark. My 'capacity' is quite a bit less than
2 liters.

No, it's really ballast water and despite 3 years of searching, I can't find
any route for it to get there. For a while I thought it might somehow be
sucked forward inside the rudder cable guide tubes but they were dry each
time I checked.. There are several unused static ports but the associated
tubes are plugged with golf tees. All other tubes go to instruments. The
only clue is that dumping at high airspeed makes the problem worse.

Bill Daniels

Hi Bill,
try a lipstick camera in the footwell.
It may take a few flights, progressively moving the camera "upstream" when the flow source is found.

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