Tuning in the trim

[tbone1004]

I'm not familiar with that wing from Oxycheq, but if you have any pictures of you trying to hover that would be an ideal start point. As said above, most of the problems are solved with body positioning

 

[aquacat8]

I have the opposite issue: light feet when wearing 7mil and an aluminum 80. It never used to bother me but now that I dive with cave types I’m getting more fussy LOL. To create a tail weight I bought some trim weights for ankles to clip low on my BC. I can clip them to any D rings, around a waist or tank strap, in your case you could put one or two up high somewhere perhaps. They take up way less “real estate” on a BC than trim pockets, great for playing with trim. Even if you are lopsided from carrying something on one side you can clip on one.

 

[aquacat8]

I also used to mostly dive steel... way better for trim, but harder to rent. Jupiter dive center does rent steel, one reason I like them!

 

[wKkaY]

Great advice everyone, thanks! I had no idea AL80 were butt light.
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I tip backwards.

At one destination I dived, we were given a mix of 3000psi and 3300psi rated AL80s, where the former trimmed out perfectly well and the latter were really butt-heavy. If you rented those kind of tanks, I think they are impossible to trim without lead up the top!