Questions on weighing the airplane
Thinking ahead on my restoration of this KF4, at some point I'll need to weigh it and do a new weight and balance. Many years ago when I worked at a Beechcraft dealership we had nice big platform scales for the little birds and load cells for the KingAirs. What the heck am I going to use for my Kitfox? And I don't think we ever did weigh a tail dragger. It has to be level to weigh, so do I put a bathroom scale on a short ladder?!?!
This is the stuff that keeps me up at night during the winter when I can't work on the airplane.
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I used "heavy" bathroom scales for the mains and a regular scale for the tail after leveling the plane.
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Av8r3400
I used "
heavy" bathroom scales for the mains and a regular scale for the tail after leveling the plane.
Are you saying I'm heavy?!?!? Lol
Thanks!
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Av8r3400
I used "
heavy" bathroom scales for the mains and a regular scale for the tail after leveling the plane.
I did the same thing. Then after i was flying i took it to work and weighed it again using load cells on jacks. I found my home scales to be 20 lbs heavier. In a way that was good news.
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I see a lot of 300-400 pound max scales. How high do I need to go?
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ken nougaret
I did the same thing. Then after i was flying i took it to work and weighed it again using load cells on jacks. I found my home scales to be 20 lbs heavier. In a way that was good news.
Did you do the "dog food bag" calibration check???
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beeryboats
I see a lot of 300-400 pound max scales. How high do I need to go?
The Mangy was about 700#. It's a modified Model IV-1200 Classic. The mains were ~325 each.
My old IV-1050 was 650#, and showed about 300 on the mains.
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beeryboats
Did you do the "dog food bag" calibration check???
No, but I did the bag of wood pellets calibration test. :D
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Quite a good article I thought:
Weighing a taildragger