Talk:Center of gravity of an aircraft

message: Born2flie: Creating this page for a more formal treatment rather than the one given this important aviation topic in the Center of mass article. --18:05, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Page Creation

message: This is at the moment more of a discussion of the cg of a helicopter than for aviation in general. Either it needs to be made specific for helicopters alone or needs to discuss the issue of other aircraft. I would suggest that the assertion that cg is more critical for a helicopter is not entirely valid; very many fixed wing aircraft have been lost due to improper loading and a cg out of range as a result. MadScot666 (talk) 01:34, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: As the originator of the article. I used the FAA rotorcraft manual and the FAA weight and balance manual as references. The rotorcraft manual made a great deal about the effects of cg out of range, the general aircraft manual did not and it was weighted more on the side of fixed-wing aircraft. --Born2flie (talk) 01:22, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dominated by Helicopter Discussion 

message: I'd like to suggest the following revision in the wording, to provide more clarity:
*Determine the weight and arm of each mass to be carried in the aircraft.
*Multiply that weight by that arm for each mass to be carried, to calculate the moment of each mass.
*Including the aircraft empty weight and moment, add the weights of all mass, and the moments of all mass.
*Divide that total of the aircraft and contents moment by that total (gross) weight to give an overall arm.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jw4nvc (talk • contribs) 23:08, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wording suggestion for Calc section 

message: We should definitely use SI and not imperial here if we are writing about physics. 91.103.43.50 (talk) 14:26, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Given example units 

message: Quite a good article having read through it, slightly short of wikilinks and citations, images would also help. What seems to be missing to me is the process of determining an aircraft's actual centre of gravity, i.e. weighing it. There's enough for a separate article on the subject. Is this something that we would like to cover? Cheers. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 10:15, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that there is scope for expanding this article to incorporate some information about weighing an aircraft to determines its weight and the position of its CG. I doubt it is sufficiently notable a topic to warrant its own article. I found the lede to be a bit indigestible so I made a few tweaks - diff. Dolphin (t) 10:46, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: You're probably right, at the worst if it got too long it could be split off. Think I have the same FAA handbook that has been used here, perhaps I'll start a section in a sandbox and see what it looks like. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 10:59, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It's actually the hard copy FAA 'A&C' manual that I have. Just noticed that the article is using templated cites, I struggle mightily with them. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 11:03, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestion

message: Substituted at 21:37, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment