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PA-32 Weight and Balance
Orval Fairbairn wrote:
It is easy to build sample gross weight scenarios and loadings expected on typical trips. I did the same for our Sundowner. You can also put several versions of the sheet on one page to display calculations for different seatings, takeoff, landing, etc... side by side. If you add the POH data on it's own tab, VLOOKUP or HLOOKUP can read the charts. Conditional formatting is nice to alert the user to out of limits results. |
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PA-32 Weight and Balance
"john smith" wrote in message ... Does anyone have an electronic weight and balance for PA-32 ? Do you mean a spreadsheet? Yes. |
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PA-32 Weight and Balance
Does anyone have an electronic weight and balance for PA-32 ?
Do you mean a spreadsheet? Yes. Do you know how to enter equations into spreadsheet cells? |
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PA-32 Weight and Balance
"John Doe" wrote in
news:_y9bg.44290$iF3.6732@dukeread01: Does anyone have an electronic weight and balance for PA-32 ? I downloaded a free program, AvInfo written by Karl Medcalf, that calculates and graphically displays your weight and balance. It runs on Windows and has several features I like: Weights can be named (i.e., Pax names), Graph can show your specified maximum landing weight, several aircraft data can be kept by registration number. It does require a bit of setup but the associated documentation is clear enough to get you through it. See: http://users3.ev1.net/~medcalf/avinfo.html -- |
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PA-32 Weight and Balance
John Doe wrote:
Has anyone ever been able to put 6 adults in a Saratoga without exceeding the aft CG? So far, every time I run the numbers with two adults in the aft two seats, I exceed the aft CG. Depends also on the model year. You have to work at it to get my '65 PA32-260 out of the CG envelope. Two 240 lb people in the back seats, a 180 lb pilot and no luggage is still within the envelope, although just barely as long as there is at least 39 gallons of fuel on board. The front CG limit on mine is even harder to hit: with the maximum 100 lbs in the front baggage, and two 250 lb people in the front seats, it is still within the front CG limit. I believe the rear seats got moved a few inches aft in later model years, and that the tapered wing has a smaller CG envelope than the hershey bar wing. |
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