Monday, August 05, 2013

Weight and Balance Time

All airplanes are required to get weighed and balanced every so often, and we are required to do it every two years.

Thankfully I had some comrades from our other MAF base in Tarakan come down to help us get our airplanes weighed.  It's a pretty simple process, but it takes a little creativity to get everything to reach the extra tall float-plane.

After all three load cells are in place, you read the numbers on the monitor, and then go do a little math to determine how much your airplane weighs and where it's center of gravity is.

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