Different Things Used For Ballast
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Different Things Used For Ballast
Coming to the end of the summer programme and one flight from Norwich to Jersey on a BAe ATP was empty. The aircraft needed 600kgs of ballast to trim and the only thing they could find were paving stones from the staff car park!!
Also ballasted an aircraft with the airport fire service barbeque before.......
Also ballasted an aircraft with the airport fire service barbeque before.......
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I'm not suggesting it for your application and thinking about it now it might not have been such a good idea, but years ago we used very strong 20 litre water containers on the TriLanders for ballast, empty them out when you get to the other end....
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We used to use water containers in the front end of B727's, then we began using big bags of sand... both palletised! Rather tail heavy are the ol' 72's........... good days.........
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Once had an ATP north of Hadrians Wall in urgent need of ballast so they crew went down to Homebase and bought a load of shingle!!!
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We used to use those big heavy plastic things that are used to hold temporary fences up - construction work at an airport can be useful sometimes !!
Heard of breeze blocks being used too.
Isn't it weired though how you send ballast out and never see it again, but at every airport there is never any ballast when you need it. - Where does it all go ???
Heard of breeze blocks being used too.
Isn't it weired though how you send ballast out and never see it again, but at every airport there is never any ballast when you need it. - Where does it all go ???
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Leezyjet,
I may have an answer there! Whilst working at Schiphol I needed to get hold of some ballast. One of my Dutch colleagues gave me a phone number and I rang it to be answered with....(in Dutch)..."ballast department!" Never found out where on the airport it was but ever since I've had visions of a man in a room stuffed full of sandbags waiting for the phone to ring!
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I may have an answer there! Whilst working at Schiphol I needed to get hold of some ballast. One of my Dutch colleagues gave me a phone number and I rang it to be answered with....(in Dutch)..."ballast department!" Never found out where on the airport it was but ever since I've had visions of a man in a room stuffed full of sandbags waiting for the phone to ring!
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We used to use those big heavy plastic things that are used to hold temporary fences up - construction work at an airport can be useful sometimes !!
