Originally Posted by
cessnapete
Don’t know about the A330 but a VS pilot says the A350 needs 5000kgs rear ballast when flying empty or lightly loaded. A problem due to the weight of the new Upper Class furniture apparently.
That is true. I will be at work tomorrow so I will check it for you but if I remember that correctly there is crazy fuel vector for A350. Even when you are fine on ZFW you will be way out of trim on TOW with fuel because trim jumps forward. We still have A350 in testing so I do not prepare them (waiting for my training in Dec) but as far as I know they were carrying crazy amounts of empty AKE in the aft.