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In article , Anne-Marie Maddison
wrote: The weight and balance computer programme at the flight school i use calculates it all for you . Basically you put in weights of pilot / passenger , fuel and any baggage (this is for a R22 ).The fuel amount can be to max take off weight -what weight is left between the max take off weight and the weight of the heli ,people and baggage.This programme then gives you weight and balance at take off and at landing with 5 gallons left on board .you should always try and land with approx 5 gallons incase a divert is called at any time . So,your take off and landing weight and balance is callculated for you. Now i am going to aasume the following ,if your weight and balance is ok for take-off and landing then i would presume you do not check in flight because you are checking the 2 extreme parameters and these are ok. In the case of me and my heavy friend we were out of balance on take-off and out on balance on arriving with 5 gallons om board calculated.thats why we switch machine and went for a short flight. Cheers Ben http://homepage.mac.com/swaltner/flying/ I've posted it before, but this page has a Excel spreadsheet that I developed on it. It does the W&B calcs for a R-22. It calculates the max fuel you can carry on board and stay under the max gross weight. It will plot the "full" and empty fuel points on fore/aft & right/left CG charts. I've found that the R-22 helicopters that I flew could cary about 430 pounds pilot/passenger/baggage before being outside of the forward CG range. Please verify all calculations done by the spreadsheet before flight. Steve |
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