Weights and Balances

It sure is a pesky exercise to calculate weights and balances before every flight. That is, that was the case until I found a free application by Smartsoft out of Norway.

From my cell phone I connected to the Internet and downloaded a very small JAVA application. I had to register my email on the company's site and in return received an activation key 2 seconds later. A very simple setup of your plane's performance envelope and voila, you get a very nice graph that shows you exactly whether your current load is ok. Need a quick check of a cross wind component? No problem. The application does that too. Very simple to operate and it does the trick. Good bye paper and hello safety!!

A big thank you to Ewa and Arne Opheim for making the tool available to all!!