Caravan Weight & Balance

[Buddy1958]

Does anybody have (or know of) a program similar (i.e. it uses the operating index) to that "SeeGee" wheel thing for figuring W&B for the CE-208B? I'm a night freight dog looking to ditch the SeeGee Whiz-Wheel for a PalmPilot version that's more user-friendly.

 

[N60OSU]

I know it's old school but the POH has a loading diagram and with my trusty electronic E6-B I do W/B in a couple of seconds. My company has a graph for W/B but I find the E6-B is more reliable. Especially given how easy it is to load the B model forward of limits.

 

[FN FAL]

Does anybody have (or know of) a program similar (i.e. it uses the operating index) to that "SeeGee" wheel thing for figuring W&B for the CE-208B? I'm a night freight dog looking to ditch the SeeGee Whiz-Wheel for a PalmPilot version that's more user-friendly.

We use a Cessna manual work sheet, it takes about three minutes without a calculator if you are fast with doing manual math. The last ramp check I went through, two federales introduced themselves about the time we were almost done loading. I pointed to a spot on the w&b diagram and told them that's where I predicted the loaded cg was going to end up. They watched step by step as I calculated the result and there it was.

If you're having a problem balancing the aircraft, I have found that by filling zone six first, it alleviates a lot problems when you have less than 1,000 lbs of heavy smaller freight that will not fill the plane past zone 2 or 3.

Generally speaking, if they have less than 800 lbs of freight, I will make pod "A" unavailable to the ramp personnel and get them load pod "d", which they seem to avoid for some reason.

I have found that with anything over 1,000 lbs of normal density freight, a fuel loading of 1,900 lbs and one seat filled, balancing the plane doesn't require any special loading instructions, but you always have to be careful.

I have heard that some operators are using a mechanical device to measure whether the loaded 208 is within limits. However, I am not familiar with this method.

 

[Buddy1958]

I guess that's a "No" as far as a PalmPilot version of the SeeGee Whiz Wheel goes, huh? Thanks for the replies tho!

 

[paulsalem]

I've never used any of these, nor do I know if they will work. I just did some googleing and this is what i found.

I hope one of them helps you out.


http://www.qsyssoft.com/page2.html

https://software.palm.com/us/html/display_palm_product.jsp?navCategoryId=cat170029&id=prod350543

http://cavucompanies.com/CAVU/EFB-Pro feature page.htm

http://www.palmflying.com/aeropalm.html

http://www.palmflying.com/copilot.html


http://www.palmflying.com/esixb.html

There is a ton of software here for aviation:
http://www.palmsource.com/interests/aviation/

 

[moonlight]

Try these guys. www.flyincg.com I've always had good luck w/ them. They offer the metal templates and graph paper, and also the W/B program on CD. I have it on our plane's laptop, and can run a W/B graph in about 30 secs. If the computer goes T/U I keep the template and graph paper in the flightlog . BTW, both are FAA approved for use, as each program and template is airplane specific.