Wait and Balance
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Wait and Balance
Eric, my compliments on your excellent article on weighing your airplane in current Flypaper ! I enjoyed it.
Wen I bought my plane I had it weighed- it came out surprisingly close to the calculated number from many years ago, but I'm glad I did it.
Rudy
Wen I bought my plane I had it weighed- it came out surprisingly close to the calculated number from many years ago, but I'm glad I did it.
Rudy
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Thanks,Rudy. I still haven't got mine in the mail yet--I think my mailman musta hijacked it!
Since I wrote the article,I've trimmed about 30 pounds off the airplane's weight--it's down to about 1310. I replaced the bench rear seat with a single 185 jump seat,and I removed the vacuum system & instruments as well as a marker-beacon receiver & antenna.
Eric
Since I wrote the article,I've trimmed about 30 pounds off the airplane's weight--it's down to about 1310. I replaced the bench rear seat with a single 185 jump seat,and I removed the vacuum system & instruments as well as a marker-beacon receiver & antenna.
Eric
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Eric
I just got the 170 News and really enjoyed your article. Nice job. My calculated weight after all the mods came in at 1344 with Javelin tank but no rear seat which I didn't think was too bad. I also didn't think it was very credible so I'm real reluctant to weigh the airplane, prove it wrong, and have less legal useful load.
I just got the 170 News and really enjoyed your article. Nice job. My calculated weight after all the mods came in at 1344 with Javelin tank but no rear seat which I didn't think was too bad. I also didn't think it was very credible so I'm real reluctant to weigh the airplane, prove it wrong, and have less legal useful load.
Dave
N92CP ("Clark's Plane")
1953 C-180
N92CP ("Clark's Plane")
1953 C-180
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Wait & Balance
Hi,
I had my plane weighed at my annual (6/18/03) at Twiss Air Service at Astoria, OR. The plane has a nav/com, Apollo GPS, Oil filter, Std rear seat (heavy), Xponder, two gyros, Wheel paints, NO gas, 5 qts of Oil. The weight was 1353 lbs.
'52 170
I had my plane weighed at my annual (6/18/03) at Twiss Air Service at Astoria, OR. The plane has a nav/com, Apollo GPS, Oil filter, Std rear seat (heavy), Xponder, two gyros, Wheel paints, NO gas, 5 qts of Oil. The weight was 1353 lbs.
'52 170
'52 170 N2768D
Collin Gyenes
Oregon Rep
Collin Gyenes
Oregon Rep
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Since I wrote the "Wait & Balance" article,I installed a single 185 rear jump seat and removed the vacuum system & gyro's. Currently,my 170 weighs 1,310 pounds,moment 50,361, for a CG of 38.44". That's including oil & unusable fuel. I wouldn't mind a little more weight loss but am reluctant to start stripping out the upholstery,carpet,headliner,etc.
Just for reference,the original factory W&B sheet sez it weighed 1,244, moment 45,896,for a CG of 36.9" with the same fuel/oil status. I noticed that the actual scale readings were not included,they probably weighed the first one & just used the same figures for all the rest.
The airplane was also weighed after an extensive post-wreck rebuild in 1960. That sheet sez it weighed 1.312, moment 50,646, for a CG of 38.6".
It musta really been a hot-rod in the original configuration,IF that 1,244 weight was for real! But that's a big IF!
Eric
Just for reference,the original factory W&B sheet sez it weighed 1,244, moment 45,896,for a CG of 36.9" with the same fuel/oil status. I noticed that the actual scale readings were not included,they probably weighed the first one & just used the same figures for all the rest.
The airplane was also weighed after an extensive post-wreck rebuild in 1960. That sheet sez it weighed 1.312, moment 50,646, for a CG of 38.6".
It musta really been a hot-rod in the original configuration,IF that 1,244 weight was for real! But that's a big IF!
Eric
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Yeah, Eric, I troubled over that a long time before I realized that the graph in the Owner's Manual doesn't deal with ARM, it deals in INDEX units, which are derived by wt X ARM divided by 1000. This works out in my airplane to have an empty weight Index unit of 55.6 which is actually in the MIDDLE of the envelope.