Takeoff distance calculations?

Frode Berg wrote:
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Frode Berg wrote:

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"Frode Berg" wrote in message
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Hi!

I fly a Piper Arrow 180 hp from 1968

Anyone have a spreadsheet or programme to calculate takeoff and landing
distance letting you input weights, pressure alt, temperature?

Frode

I don't, but you do. Check out the POH that came with the aeroplane.


No POH with the 68 Arrow I'm afraid, but only an "Owners handbook"
Piper didn't start making POH's until a few years later, or so I've been
told.

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Don't you need a weight and balance to take off? What do you do if you
get ramp checked?


Weight and balance is on a seperate sheet of paper.

Probably recalculated somewhere down the line after mods in panel or other
stuff.

I've never seen an official POH for the 68' Arrow, so I'm guessing they were
delivered with the Owners handbook, and the essential papers (like W&B) in a
binder or something.

Anyone know the facts around these things?

Frode

You need:

- the empty weight and CG location from the weighing certificate,
- the max. gross weight,
- allowed CG limits,
- moment arms of:
- from seats,
- rear seats,
- luggage locker, and
- fuel.

If the system in Norway resembles ours (Finland), you ought to
have a weighing certificate which is not older than 5 years.
The weighing will take care of any actual changes in empty
weight and CG position.

The rest of information should be obtainable from the manual.

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Tauno Voipio
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