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Paul Mahony
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Hi all,

I'm new to the forum but am hugely impressed with the SD software so far which I intend to put on an iPad 3 soon.

I'm afraid that I seem to be having a complete nightmare when trying to enter the figures into the Weight & Balance boxes and forming the polygon for my FD CTSW (472.5kgs). Everytime I plan a route, I keep seeing the red message: "The aircraft is either overloaded or outside of its acceptable centre of gravity envelope" and it's driving me nuts!!

It's a fairly common light aircraft and I wonder if anyone out there has done all the hard work for me and can post the profile figures for their CTSW on this forum?

Many thanks!

Grila
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stevelup - 9/22/2012 11:04:31 AM


290kg empty weight
145kg of bodies
25kg of fuel

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460kg

So I would expect your arrow is right at the top of the box rather than outside it. Is SD actually generating a warning?


I have to bring it up because I have a question:
If I fill out all positions like its written above, there is a difference of 6kg between the empty weight in the aircraft property settings and the W&B-window. Example: Empty weight=300kg and later in the W&B window I set all position to 0kg the Takeoff weight is shown as 294kg. The same, if I set for example the pilot weight to 70kg, the Takeoff weight is shown as 364kg.
‌There is something wrong... All is fine, if I set the empty weight in the aircraft property settings to (not true) 306kg...



‌Chris‌

Edited 7/19/2017 8:16:36 AM by Chris_LSZO
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Grila - 9/9/2012 6:20:32 PM
stevelup - 9/17/2012 2:59:43 PM
Grila - 9/19/2012 5:20:51 PM
stevelup - 9/21/2012 5:38:00 PM
Grila - 9/21/2012 9:28:32 PM
                         Hi Steve, Due to that confusion between the manufacturer's CoG limits...
Grila - 9/21/2012 9:42:30 PM
                             Hi Steve, Just a thought but does the fact that the 'plane wouldn't...
Grila - 9/21/2012 9:49:33 PM
                                 Technically yes, but if there wasn't 55kg in at least one of the...
stevelup - 9/22/2012 10:58:34 AM
stevelup - 9/22/2012 11:04:31 AM
Grila - 9/25/2012 9:51:23 AM
Chris_LSZO - 7/19/2017 8:16:36 AM
pgroell - 7/19/2017 8:42:37 AM
Chris_LSZO - 7/19/2017 8:50:43 AM

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