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Robinson R-22 Weight & Balance Member Question

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Channel: Helicopter Online Ground School LLC · 2014 · Education

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Robinson R-22 Weight & Balance Member Question
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Hello, I'm Kenny Keller, the creator of Helicopter Online Ground School and this is a short impromptu video to answer a member question about the Robinson R-22 Weight and Balance section inside Helicopter Online Ground School. And I knew someone was going to ask this question. We'll go through the weight and balance terms and then I'll go through a sample weight and balance that I built and as much as I hate weight and balance, it's a necessary part and something that we have to do. We all struggle with weight and balance -- or most of us do anyway. I just checked this slide a little while ago and she just asked this question: "Kenny, good teaching video! Could you do another video and show a picture of the Helicopter POH and where you're getting these numbers from?" I knew somebody was going to ask that question which -- that's fine, it's a great question. So the answer is our Andy-dandy Pilot's Operating Handbook. Section six, the weight and balance section will have the numbers for your specific aircraft. Now depending on whether you're flying in a small school or big school, most schools already have a weight and balance form made up for you. And so you've already got the numbers plugged in that you're going to need. And those numbers come from the POH for that specific helicopter. And right there is an example of one of those. This is a sheet that I had from a previous R-22 that I'd flown and so I just took the numbers right from that sheet. So there are times like when I flew an Enstrom turbine aircraft to do some testing for some avionics. And so you know, it's a privately owned aircraft and of course there's no weight and balance sheets there for me so I just sit down, open up the POH, go through it, find the correct weight and balance, find the numbers and work my way through it. And it took me probably half an hour doing it cold and never doing it with that aircraft and it's kind of a pain but it's what we have to do. We have to figure out the weight and balance to make sure that we're going to stay within center of gravity during the entire flight. And if any officer happens to show up, they're going to want to know if you have your weight and balance figured out for your aircraft and know what your limits are for that day for the fuel load that you have and the passengers on and so on and so forth. So this is the presentation that she's talking about right here. And it's the numbers that I have in red were the numbers that are already basically pre-figured numbers. The blue numbers are what we're figuring as we're going through working with this specific problem for this aircraft. The bottom line is,  as long as you remember that weight times arm equals the moment and that the moment divided by the weight equals the arm, you can pretty much work any weight and balance problem for any aircraft. Again, it's a little unhandy if you don't have the sheet that's pre-made up, but it can be done as long as you remember the formulas for working the weight and balance. And for those of you that aren't members, we do have a complete R-22 section inside Online Ground School, we have ten sections numbered that you can see it on the side. It goes right down the list: general section, limitations, emergency procedures, it goes right down the list. So when you're working through here, you can just go down step by step. You go to the first one in general, you go to limitations, go to emergency procedures. And each section has a video, it also has an mp3 download below the video. So you can watch the video a couple of times if you want, once or twice. And then if you want to download the mp3 file to take with you on the road driving, a lot of our customers -- that's what they do. They download the mp3 files, they watch the videos but then they download the mp3 so that when they're driving to their helicopter lesson, they've got something they can plug in and listen to while they're driving. Which is again part of the reason why I built this entire thing back when I started flying in the late nineties and struggling through all my ratings. I was always thinking "Man I wish I had something I could listen to in the car." And all this driving I did -- two hours to a lesson, two hours back home again, I would have loved to have something like this when I was training. So if you're interested in learning more about our training site, in the description box click the link for HelicopterGround.com and go right to our website. And you can investigate and find out some information from there about it. And then there's also the test drive you can take and that's a self sign-up at this time where you can just click on it and sign up for twenty-four hours and go in and take a look around. See what you think.

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