The maintenance manual will have the procedure to use for weighing
the plane and calculating the W&B. That's what I've used.



"Ray Andraka" wrote in message
...
When you weigh a plane, what is required for paper work? I imagine an
equipment
list as installed with the nominal weights and CG's of installed equipment
such
as radios similar to the original equipment list is needed.

Otis Winslow wrote:

I can't recall seeing anything with the requirment to have the actual
signed
copy
in the plane. I've always kept that with the log books. I keep a copy of
it
in the
plane.

As for trying to come up with an accurate one, that's often an effort in
futility. Having
been faced with multiple revisions, seemingly carefully updated several
times, I've
opted to just weigh the plane. And it's always been off significantly
from
the brought
foreward updates. Plus it's probably cheaper than spending several hours
trying
to figure it out.

"Jim Weir" wrote in message
...

Got asked a question that I can't find the answer to.

Say I take a feller's logbooks home during the annual and after a few
hours of
grunt and scream I come up with what I think is the current equipment
list
and a
defensible weight and balance. I sign off the w&b in the logbook and
give
the
feller the printout equipment list with the same weight and balance
figures as
are in the logbook.

I print this out with my printed name and certificate number at the
bottom, but
don't sign the printout. Or he asks a few months later for a copy of
the
w&b by
email. I sure as hell have a hard time poking ink down the phone
lines.

So, sez, I, where in the regs is it stated that the w&b that you carry
on
board
the airplane needs a signature? I can't find it. Please, no answers
telling me
how to cut and paste a signature into a spreadsheet. That is child's
play, and
besides, how the hell do you know that somebody didn't cut and paste
phony
data
over my signature?

So, chapter and verse REQUIRING a signature on the w&b in the
aircraft?

Jim
Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com

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