FAA regulations - W&B

"Arne" wrote in message
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In USA, if you are flying under Part 91 of the Federal Aviation
Regulations (FARs).
Are you required to perform weight and balance checks before every flight?
yes, as PIC you are required to be aware of the w&B and effect of fuel burn
on CG inflight
And if so, are you required to document it?
No
Can the FAA show up on the ramp asking you to show the weight and balance
calculation?
No

Know your rights for "Ramp Checks", Yes, Here is my pilot certificate and
medical, and the aircraft POH is right here, but if you don't mind I'm
running late for an appointment and I need to get this aircraft secured. Is
there a phone number were I can call you and we can continue this
discussion?

BT

My solution:

I keep several sample W/B spreadsheets in a notebook in
the plane. My loading most often follows one of them. No
need to recalc it then.

"Arne" wrote in message
...
In USA, if you are flying under Part 91 of the Federal Aviation
Regulations (FARs).



Are you required to perform weight and balance checks before every flight?
And if so, are you required to document it? Can the FAA show up on the
ramp asking you to show the weight and balance calculation?

In the Navion with the geared engine if I was flying solo I had to put fuel in the
baggage compartment tank to stay within W&B. Ron was ok by himself, I'm just too
light : - ). We will see what the W&B looks like with the new engine.

Margy

George Patterson wrote:

Peter Duniho wrote:

Of course, in most cases, a pilot will have done enough sample W&B
calculations to know when they need to consider the "balance" part for solo
or lightly loaded operations.

This is not necessary with a Maule. You can load anything in the front seats up
to the point of MGW and stay within the envelope. This is also true of a Cessna
150. This is, in fact true of nearly every light aircraft.

I suppose you could argue that "enough sample W&B calculations" is 1 in those
cases, but I can't recall every doing any when I owned those planes. It was
pretty obvious from the fact that the front seats are right under the center of
lift.

George Patterson
I prefer Heaven for climate but Hell for company.

("Margy Natalie" wrote)\
In the Navion with the geared engine if I was flying solo I had to put
fuel in the
baggage compartment tank to stay within W&B. Ron was ok by himself, I'm
just too
light : - ). We will see what the W&B looks like with the new engine.


What's the update on your Navion?


Montblack