Tri gear to tail wheel weight and balance

[GoingHawgWyld]

Funny how this article is on April 1st... Hmmmm.....

[Geowitz]

Sorry, wasn't trying to throw your thread off course... We know it's fake... Just threw it in for a little laugh.

[GoingHawgWyld]

Actually I was going for it. Might be a doable idea. When I started reading about shifting a weight to move CG rearward to be on the tail I kinda thought that was a tad off and then noticed the date.... Now if one were to put a set of rails under the plane to crank the gear forward and backward that would work... Glad people have a sence of humor!

[GoingHawgWyld]

I finally got around to finishing my conversion from tri gear to tail wheel yesterday. The weight and balance and as a tri gear the plane was 853 pounds empty (Included a 35 pound BRS and no wheel pants). The C.G. was at 12.72 inches.

After the conversion the plane weighed in at 863 pounds in the same configuration as before and also now includes the wheel pants and a GPS. The C.G. is now 14.74 inches. So I got a rearward movement of 2.02 inches. Would have been even more without the wheel pants and GPS. Seems high to me but I have had several people look at it and the numbers are pretty simple... A really small amount of weight hanging out there 167 inches while moving a large weight forward near C.G. makes a big difference!

After adding in for full main tank fuel, header tank, pilot and passenger it will end up at the most aft C.G. at 16 inches.

Not where I wanted to be but guess will work...

[rwaltman]

After adding in ... it will end up at the most aft C.G. at 16 inches.
Not where I wanted to be but guess will work...

Or not. Be VERY CAREFUL there ...

Roberto.

[Av8r3400]

The plane will handle beautifully at 16".

I've seen these planes flying on floats and handling fine over 17".