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Useful load

Occupants, baggage and fuel weight checked against the rated useful load.

Gross-weight only, not a full weight-and-balance CG envelope check. Not a substitute for a real W&B calculation before flight.

MTOW minus empty weight, from the POH.

Defaults to 0.

Defaults to 170 (FAA standard weight).

Converted at 6 lb/gal avgas.

Enter the aircraft's rated useful load (MTOW minus empty weight) from the POH. Without it there is no margin to compute.

What it needs

  • Useful load (lb), required — MTOW minus empty weight, from the POH.
  • Occupants, optional — Defaults to 0.
  • Average occupant weight (lb), optional — Defaults to 170 (FAA standard weight).
  • Baggage (lb), optional
  • Fuel carried (gal), optional — Converted at 6 lb/gal avgas.

In AdventureOS

Part of Sky. Inside the module it fills itself in from what you have already logged.

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