Best place for CG along roll axis

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Is there a way (other than consulting a manual each time)

NO. Pilots must calculate weight and balance prior to each flight.

Steve Foley wrote:
"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Is there a way (other than consulting a manual each time)

NO. Pilots must calculate weight and balance prior to each flight.

And helo pilots have to do it for two axes.

Steve Foley writes:

NO. Pilots must calculate weight and balance prior to each flight.

And they all do this methodically?

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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Steve Foley writes:

NO. Pilots must calculate weight and balance prior to each flight.

And they all do this methodically?

I'm not sure what you mean by methodically.

There is a specific method used to calculate W&B, so they should be using
the prescribed method.

If you mean do they always do this, I can only speak for myself. I have a
pre-calculated one for myself with full fuel, myself with fuel to tabs
(partial tanks) and myself and a 170lb person in the front right seat, both
with full fuel and tabs. Anything else I need to recalculate.

Steve Foley writes:

If you mean do they always do this, I can only speak for myself. I have a
pre-calculated one for myself with full fuel, myself with fuel to tabs
(partial tanks) and myself and a 170lb person in the front right seat, both
with full fuel and tabs. Anything else I need to recalculate.

So if someone tosses a bag in the back, or if the person next to you
weighs more or less than 170 lbs, you redo the calculations?

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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Steve Foley writes:

If you mean do they always do this, I can only speak for myself. I have a
pre-calculated one for myself with full fuel, myself with fuel to tabs
(partial tanks) and myself and a 170lb person in the front right seat,
both
with full fuel and tabs. Anything else I need to recalculate.

So if someone tosses a bag in the back, or if the person next to you
weighs more or less than 170 lbs, you redo the calculations?




Nobody 'tosses a bag in the back' of my plane. I take it, weight it, stow
it, and re-do the weight and balance.

Mxsmanic,

So if someone tosses a bag in the back, or if the person next to you
weighs more or less than 170 lbs, you redo the calculations?


Yes. It's not rocket science. In fact, it's one of the key things you
learn when really flying.

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Mxsmanic,

And they all do this methodically?


Those that you don't find in your mile-high piles of accident reports,
yes.

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

There has got to be a MSFS usegroup that you can ask these questions on.
Not all MSFS aircraft react the same as a real airplane

and most any real airplane will drop the nose without aft stick pressure
when rolled into a turn.

BT

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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After constantly struggling with a heavy nose in several aircraft it
occurred to me that having a fat pilot in front and nothing else was
moving the CG forward. I put some weight in back and moved the CG
further back over the wings, and handling improved greatly. Is there
a way (other than consulting a manual each time) to determine exactly
where over the wing is the best place for the CG? MSFS is kind enough
to show me a diagram with the current CG marked, but I don't know how
far back I should try to place it.

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He's already over there.
Mxsmanic, ask these questions over there. I guarantee you'll get the answers
you're looking for over there.
Crash Lander

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"BTIZ" wrote in message
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There has got to be a MSFS usegroup that you can ask these questions on.
Not all MSFS aircraft react the same as a real airplane

and most any real airplane will drop the nose without aft stick pressure
when rolled into a turn.

BT

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
...
After constantly struggling with a heavy nose in several aircraft it
occurred to me that having a fat pilot in front and nothing else was
moving the CG forward. I put some weight in back and moved the CG
further back over the wings, and handling improved greatly. Is there
a way (other than consulting a manual each time) to determine exactly
where over the wing is the best place for the CG? MSFS is kind enough
to show me a diagram with the current CG marked, but I don't know how
far back I should try to place it.

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