As for weight and balance, it's a simple summation of moments involving empty aircraft weight and the variable weights of things like pilot/passenger, fuel, and baggage, such that the the aircraft CG range is maintained in the proven CG envelope, located around the center of lift. There are lots of websites that discuss this in detail, as well as spreadsheets that facilitate getting that job done correctly. Don't use your gut to tell you where the pilot's CG is, for example....weigh it on three scales with pilot in and pilot out and the spreadsheet (through the moment calculations) will tell you exactly where the pilot's CG is. Same with fuel, baggage, etc. Pretty simple stuff, but failure to to it correctly has led to crashed planes and dead pilots. Almost been there, almost did that! See http://www.n56ml.com/wb/index.html if you haven't already. This is not the details of how to do it, but how ignoring weight and balance can go very badly very quickly. There's also a link here for my KR2S weight and balance spreadsheet, which you are welcome to use on you KR, but every KR is different (especially mine), and all measurements should be directly from YOUR plane, not MY plane!
There's also the matter of gear location, but that's more ground handling than flight CG, and should be fairly close for anything built using KR plans and gear.
Mark Langford m...@n56ml.com http://www.n56ml.com Huntsville, AL _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org
