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Weight/Balance for Lat and Long


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Teglen
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Hi,

To start with, may I say that you have developed a first class product here, I realise you're in the last stages of the initial release, but this is a truly great tool for VFR fliers everywhere. It already has lots to offer versus the competition, but with time it will blow them away. Just need to get some approved/easy to implement hardware recommendations and install guides (e.g. I'm a helicopter pilot, so I'm looking for something that is thin/light enough to mount onto a knee board, yet is big enough say 5-7 inches to be quickly/easily visible).

Feature requests:

1. Flying the Robinson R44 helicopter and planning weight and balance I noticed that you only have weights/arms that act on the Long axis...  I don't know about fixed wing, but in helicopters it is also important to calculate the Lat weights/arms also! Is it possible for the Aircraft Manager and the Weight and Balance windows to accommodate this?

2. When entering weights into the Weight and Balance window, it would be good if the Fuel value would be automatically entered based on the selection from the Fuel window... otherwise one has to manually convert the weight of the fuel (that has been calculated automatically in the Fuel window) and then enter it manually. Just a simple time saving feature, but very useful. In the Aircraft Manager one could select the Loading Point (or points, see #3) that correlates to the Fuel calculation window?

3. This may make #2 more complicated, many aircraft have multiple fuel tanks, with different lever arms (and of course different weights depending on how they are filled). It would be really good to have SkyDemon have configurable fuel tanks (including min/max values).

Again, excellent product!

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Tim Dawson
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Yeah I can be around at Henstridge or Compton Abbas at short notice. If you contact me via the link at the bottom of the homepage we'll sort something out.
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