Will it all fit? Yes, eventually. The bigger worry is where heavy loads put the CG.

by Jonathan Spencer

Do you know where the hazards are in your aircraft weight and balance? How often do you avoid checking CG because it’s a pain?

Dan Scharf of American Aeronautics thinks he has an answer to these problems. He’s created a weight-and-balance plotter (and a Web-based analog) that he says takes so much of the work out of doing weight and balance that it can become routine rather than a chore you avoid while blindly hoping for the best. …