General, Pete Thomas, Registration, Spinner, Weight & Balance

Monday 22nd July 2019

22/07/2019 Trevor Mills Leave a comment

Music: None today – Concentrating!!

Weighing day today! Pete Thomas a good friend from the London Gliding Club offered to come down to weigh G-MLSY and today’s the day!

Everything needs to be fitted for the weighing. So the spinner is first and the canopy is lifted on but is won’t be secured yet.

Ian as my LAA inspector is overseeing the process to make sure it’s down to the LAA standard.

Pete starts the process of laying out the pressure pads.

The aircraft has to be exactly level for this so a spirit level is placed across the cockpit and on the cockpit edge and adjustments are made as appropriate.

With the aircraft sitting on the pads and levelled both lat and lon weighing can begin.

The datum marks have to be calculated so a plumb line is dropped from the reference points and a position marked on the floor. These marks will be used later in the calculations.

Pete in action marking the front datum.

All done now but a quick pic with everything on before we start to take it off again for the final set of inspections.

I’ve done the wing and starboard side registrations but didn’t get chance to go the port side. It’s amazing how quick I did this side compared with the other. At least twice as quick no I know what I’m doing!

Now a pick from the left. Looks quite nice.

The end of another day. Please with the process so far and not long now to the first engine runs and flight.

Following the build of my Bristell NG5 Kit No. 382 Registration G-MLSY