Jeff I like your equation for measuring the pilots CG.... HOWEVER.... my belly button is WAY out front of the rest of me.... gotta put in a deviance factor...hehehe jw Joe. E. Wallace jwallacep51 at gmail.com
On Mar 6, 2013, at 1:43 PM, Jeff Scott <jscott.planes at gmx.com> wrote: > There are a couple of methods that work quite well. One is to do the W & B > of the plane empty, then have the pilot or someone of similar size climb into > the cockpit and weight it again. You'll come up with an exact moment arm for > the pilot when you back the numbers out of the original equation. > > Another rule of thumb method that works pretty well is to run a measuring > tape from a known point to the pilots belly button. Use the distance from > the datum to the pilots belly button as the pilot moment arm. > > -Jeff Scott > Los Alamos, NM > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: To enter the Kingdom of God, >> Sent: 03/06/13 11:03 AM >> To: krnet at list.krnet.org >> Subject: Re: KR> KRnet Digest, Vol 1, Issue 11 >> >> Center of gravity of occupant determination? How does one measure the >> location of the cg of the pilot/passenger in the reclined position as in the >> KR aircraft? It changes with fat/slim people! Does anyone have a simple >> technique like balanced in a lawn chair? I want to be able to accurately >> calculate w&b. I have sat in my KR assembled and supported the a/c on jacks >> and balanced it but I would prefer to calculate it with center of mass data. >> Can we discuss this topic? Thanks guentheraviator at yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options
