Aircraft weight and payload question

[paulj]

To convert lbs to kg just divide the lbs by 2.20462 this will give you a pretty accurate conversion

cheers

Paul

[Ray Proudfoot]

>PS. I've installed the latest builds but haven't had a chance to input a plan to the Canary Islands which was causing that error with earlier builds. I'm hopeful it has been resolved.

We could not re-create that one, but there were a lot of changes, perhaps it has sorted itself out. I think it was possibly a very specific navdata / interpretation error (no idea where the fault was/is), if it remains, I'd suggest to drop us a line at support.

Regards
Jonathan Richardson
Project Magenta[/quote]

Hi Jonathan,

I've just entered this route from LEMG to GCLP.

PIMOS UN869 RBT RUSIK and after entering UN869.RBT I received Run-time error '9' - Subscript out of range.

Oh well, there are plenty of alternatives. This was with version 1.1.0.401 dated 27 Feb.

[AchillesP]

Thanks, any chance to use it with KG ?

noted for the next update

[Ray Proudfoot]

[IMG]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Ray/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg[/IMG]Could some kind soul please explain these readings on the Payload Manager kindly provided by Achilles.

• The Basic Operating Weight is shown as over 2 million pounds.
• The Payload weight is minus 1.75 million pounds.
• The CoG is only 0.03% which doesn't seem right.

These values are taken from the Project Opensky 777-200.

Thanks to Achilles for providing this utility but its purpose is a mystery to me.

[carlos hermida]

noted for the next update

Thanks AchillesP !

[AchillesP]

Hi Ray,

It seems that you have a problem with your aircraft.cfg file. The only think I do is to read the FSUIPC offsets from FS. I do not do any calculations.

[IMG]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Ray/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg[/IMG]Could some kind soul please explain these readings on the Payload Manager kindly provided by Achilles.

• The Basic Operating Weight is shown as over 2 million pounds.
• The Payload weight is minus 1.75 million pounds.
• The CoG is only 0.03% which doesn't seem right.

These values are taken from the Project Opensky 777-200.

Thanks to Achilles for providing this utility but its purpose is a mystery to me.

[AchillesP]

[IMG]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Ray/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg[/IMG]Could some kind soul please explain these readings on the Payload Manager kindly provided by Achilles.

• The Basic Operating Weight is shown as over 2 million pounds.
• The Payload weight is minus 1.75 million pounds.
• The CoG is only 0.03% which doesn't seem right.

These values are taken from the Project Opensky 777-200.

Thanks to Achilles for providing this utility but its purpose is a mystery to me.

[Matt Olieman]

Achilles, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You

Matt Olieman

[Ray Proudfoot]

Hi Achilles,

Thanks for posting your screenshot. I have switched to several different aircraft and I'm now using the PMDG737-900 without their panel of course. But these strange values persist.

The BOW is 2149936lbs
Payload is -2035356lbs
ZFW is 114580lbs
Fuel Weight is 1.0lbs

CG Fwd and Aft are both 0% and the red value is 0.26%

The Trim Indicator Value changes in flight but I don't see a Trim Value Box.

Just to confirm I'm running FS9.1 with FSUIPC 3.85.

Are you using FSX perhaps?

[AchillesP]

Sorry forgot to mention that I tested with FSX.

I will prepare a new version for fs9 also.

Hi Achilles,

Thanks for posting your screenshot. I have switched to several different aircraft and I'm now using the PMDG737-900 without their panel of course. But these strange values persist.

The BOW is 2149936lbs
Payload is -2035356lbs
ZFW is 114580lbs
Fuel Weight is 1.0lbs

CG Fwd and Aft are both 0% and the red value is 0.26%

The Trim Indicator Value changes in flight but I don't see a Trim Value Box.

Just to confirm I'm running FS9.1 with FSUIPC 3.85.

Are you using FSX perhaps?