REFLECTOR: Weight and Balance Levelling

Scott Derrick scott at tnstaafl.net
Mon Nov 10 18:14:22 CST 2008


Here's an excellent spreadsheet to do your weight and balance.

Can be used for any Velocity or canard airplane.

http://tnstaafl.net/canards/Weight&Bal.XLS

I wish I can remember who gave it to me because they did a bang up job!

Scott

Brian Michalk wrote:
> I'm planning on doing my weight and balance this weekend.
> 
> I have not brushed up on exactly what needs to be done for the process, 
> so I am starting here.
> 
> 1)  I'm assuming I need to level the plane fore/aft.  What points do I 
> use for levelling?  left/right is easy.
> 
> 
> 2) I plan on measuring with full sump as baseline.  Add fuel in 
> increments.  Also do a W&B with pilots.  Of course all interior and 
> accessories are installed.  The plane is close to a "flying condition".
> 
> 3) A buddy is bringing over his Cessna 210, and we're going to use that 
> for the fuel, and then return it after we are finished.  I have not yet 
> done fuel flow testing, and did not want to mess with a full load of 
> fuel in the plane.
> 
> Any comments on procedure?
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