Hard Water Deposits

On Oct 9, 4:24 pm, wrote:
The only negative thing I can think about when flying from Moriarty,
NM is that unless you want to spend big bucks on distilled water, you
have to use the local stuff which leaves hard water deposits on the
glider.
Does anyone have any good solutions, (yes, pun intended) for this
problem?

Zulu


When there was still water at Estrella it was very salty. The
solution there was to fill a tranfer tank, add a cup of white vinegar,
and then transfer to the glider. The salts settle in the bottom of
the transfer tank and have to be cleaned out later.

Other pilots wipe down the glider as soon as they land and that seems
to help.

Andy