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W&B - does Skydemon calculate properly?


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Daniel_KDF
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Hi,

I‌ am trying to get the Cessna 152 W&B from the flight manual into Skydemon.
F‌irst I don't get it why Skydemon only offers a weight vs lever arm model, while a lot of W&B flight manuals have a weight vs ‌moment model. But ok, lets just divide the weight out of all the flight manual drawings and hope for the best....

U‌nfortunately ‌once I was finished, the Skydemon calculations did not match my manual calculations according to the Cessna flight manual. For debugging purposes, I set all all the weights and fuel to zero. So I was expecting to find the empty weight in the W&B chart. 
B‌ut as it can be seen, the W&B charts shows 539,8 kg as takeoff weight, while the empty weight is actually set to 545,5 kg.

A‌m I doing something wrong / am I not getting something here? Or is Skydemon not able to calculate W&B properly?

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George Reid
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Daniel_KDF - 10/2/2017 8:20:40 PM
Of course I would find out the answer on my own once I did post into the forum.

L‌ooks like Skydemon is substracting "taxi fuel" automatically.

S‌o now I can choose if I like being conservative on taxi fuel consumption but progressive on takeoff weight or visa versa...hm‌


The lever arm figures that you are using look odd.  The datum on the 152 is the firewall.  Thus the fuel, baggage 1 and baggage 2 lever arms should all be greater than the Pilot seat lever arm as they are all behind that location.  The lever arm figures that I am familiar with are
‌Pilot 0.99m
‌Fuel 1.07 m
L‌uggage 1  1.63m
Luggage 2  2.13m

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George E A Reid

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