Weight and Balance

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Weight and Balance

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danGigantic	d danGigantic posted 11/18/2019 8:46:07 PM Topic Details Share Topic
d Group: Forum Members Posts: 4, Visits: 2	Version v3.12.13.0 Hello, I seem to be having an issue getting CofG to work as I would like please see attached a screenshot of SD and the paper version. Sadly, both very different from each other.
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 11/19/2019 10:45:30 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8K, Visits: 9.1K	You're comparing a weight/moment graph in your PoH with a weight/CoG graph in SkyDemon. If your intention was to transcribe the graph into SkyDemon, you need to convert those units first.
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grahamb	grahamb posted 11/19/2019 10:47:30 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 568, Visits: 27K	+x danGigantic - 11/18/2019 8:46:07 PM Version v3.12.13.0 Hello, I seem to be having an issue getting CofG to work as I would like please see attached a screenshot of SD and the paper version. Sadly, both very different from each other. It looks to me like you are confusing the X-axis units. The units in SD are distance from datum ('arm'), whereas those on your spreadsheet are moment, which is weight x arm. (Edit - I see my post has crossed with Tim's!) Edited 11/19/2019 10:48:16 AM by grahamb
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danGigantic	d danGigantic posted 11/19/2019 4:24:50 PM Post Details Share Post
d Group: Forum Members Posts: 4, Visits: 2	Fantastic, thank you for clarifying my confusion. Thank you Tim and Graham for responding.
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