Any known problems with early ASW27?

On Dec 2, 12:46*am, Andy wrote:


Last time I measured water capacity on my -27B it came in at a tad
under 40 gallons. *Does the 50 gallons mentioned include a fuselage
tank, enlarged bags on an -A model or some other consideration? *I
didn't measure capacity super precisely, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't
even close to 50 gallons.


As Hank has indicated that was for a 28. My dump time (28048
unmodified) on fast final glide is close to 8 minutes, that's with
about 40gals on board. I usually start the dump about 4 minutes out
and land with quite a bit still left as that seems better than getting
beat up on the glide.

If I was in ridge country I'd probably have done the big valve mod by
now but it doesn't seem to be a big problem flying in SW USA.

Andy (GY)