Van's RV-7A HB-YMT » mass http://www.flyvans.com/wordpress constructing, flying and maintaining an experimental aircraft. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:34:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Weight and Balance http://www.flyvans.com/wordpress/index.php/2010/04/weight-and-balance/ http://www.flyvans.com/wordpress/index.php/2010/04/weight-and-balance/#comments Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:04:04 +0000 Bernhard Daenzer http://www.flyvans.com/wordpress/?p=156 Also, again using the guidance, help and advice from Max, we were able to complete the weight and balance measurement. This was actually an interesting one, as we had not really weighed the airplane before. The result wasn’t much of a surprise and neither a disappointment, just a tiny bit heavy at 1166lbs. (529kg). Considering the airplane is fully finished with paint and interior,  just about as much electronics as we could fit and a relatively heavy constant speed prop/engine, this isn’t that bad. We certainly knew that we were going to be above 1100lbs. Still, because the RV has such a nice envelope and payload, this still leaves ample room for us medium weight europeans ;-) Now we just have to stay in shape *LOL*

This HB-YMT Mass and Balance.xls lets you play with some figures. It also checks the limit nosegear load as per Van’s and the Aerobatic limits. Feel free to reuse, many thanks to Carl Morgan (RV-7A, new zealand) for the excellent template! 

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