Looking For W&B Using Arm Instead of Moment

And not to belabor the point, what John wanted (and finally found) was the
good-old-days CG "box" instead of the dumbed-down parallelogram that Cessna
foisted on us starting around 1960. Seems that some marketing genius thought
that the flying public was too stupid to do a "real" weight and balance by doing
the multipication of weight*arm, adding the moments, and dividing by the total
weight to get the point of balance.

I started flying in '64, and it wasn't until I went for my A&P in '70 that I
ever saw (or used, for that matter) the good old box style CG method of
calculation.

Jim



"John T"
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:

-Thanks, folks.



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