Matt Dralle Site Admin
Joined: 08 Nov 2005 Posts: 26320 Location: Livermore CA USA
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Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 4:21 pm Post subject: Weight & Balance Spreadsheet |
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Dear Listers,
I finally weighted the 'ol RV-8 last night. Gulp. As expected, pretty heavy. I did forget to fill it up with oil before I weighed, however, so I'll have to redo my weighing after I do that.
In the meantime, I created a spreadsheet to calculate the Weight & Balance. The sheet calculates a number of common scenarios and allows for the user-entering of various parameters such as pilot weight and plane weights as well as the various arms. Its setup for an RV-8, but could very easily be modified for other models of RVs. After I finished it, I thought other builders might like to use it as well. It comes with no guarantees whatsoever.
You can click on the link below to download either the PDF or the Excel spreadsheet:
PDF Format:
http://www.matronics.com/MattsRV8/WeightAndBalance/RV-8WeightAndBalance-Version1.0-MattDralle.pdf
Excel Format:
http://www.matronics.com/MattsRV8/WeightAndBalance/RV-8WeightAndBalance-Version1.0-MattDralle.xls
Matt Dralle
RV-8 #82880 N998RV
http://www.mattsrv8.com - Matt's RV-8 Construction Blog
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