Weight and Balance

[vojkd]

Hi everyone,

I must say, I am very much impressed with this aircraft. The only thing I was missing is to know the balance of the aircraft as I wasn't always sure whether to use to front baggage hold or the aft, mixed with the passenger load distribution. I did find, that certain loading situations might bring the aircraft outside of the envelope. I like old school loadsheets, so I created one for this aircraft based on the AHM. Tested it on a few flights, as I was able to crosscheck the actual CG with Spad next, and so far so good. I am sure most people would prefer an app or something, but I am just putting this out there in case someone is like me, and prefers a bit of manual planning and calculating :) any input well appreciated,

Cheers

[Luke]

Thanks :-)

[jmarkows]

I know nothing about planning W&B, but I have a pilot friend who is walking me through this a bit.

I can do the conversions easily enough and use this sheet, but if you have a template, could you convert this to using pounds and us gallons?

[vojkd]

@jmarkows Sure, I was planning to, just first would like to add some more fields to this metric version to be more like a proper loadsheet, then I will redo the scales into pounds as well. I will post it here once I have it ready.

[sg_aviation]

@vojkd Thanks, that looks amazing. Unfortunately I am too lazy to do this manually. An fully automated option is the TBM Performance app on iOS/Android.