Weight & Balance

Weight & Balance

Below is a weight & balance spreadsheet I made (in MS Excel format) to save time in computing weight & balance for the helicopters I've flown or might fly. It includes the R22, R44, R44 II, Schweizer 300C. I will add other helicopters as I fly them or when I get access to a POH. The information you must supply is the weight for each passenger. There are also spaces for entering weights and their arms at non-standard locations (say a photographer wants to keep his bag on the floor between his feet or you've attached something to the helicopter).

The spreadsheet calculates the maximum amount of fuel you can carry and plots the weight and balance on a graph. I've also added the feature of only allowing the user to enter data in the required fields. That was to keep me from accidentally erasing the formulas in the other fields. If you want to change that, you need only "unprotect" the worksheet. No password is required to do that. If you find this spreadsheet useful, please send me a donation in any amount you feel is appropriate. It takes a lot of time and effort to make things like this and to debug them.

Disclaimer: The purpose of this spreadsheet is to automate weight & balance calculation and not to alleviate the pilot's responsibility to use good judgment at all times. I have done everything reasonable to make sure this works properly and I've used it many times myself without incident. If you are downloading this, you accept that you are responsible for how you use it.

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