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Since the fuel tanks in a King Air aren’t all located in the same area of the wing, it causes some confusion when making fuel calculations for the Weight and Balance form. (PHOTO COURTESY OF BANYAN AIR SERVICE)
various locations. The actual numbers were rather large. For example, a 180-pound pilot at an Arm of 129 inches gives a Moment of 23,220. A fully loaded airplane might have a Total Arm in excess of 2,000,000! Therefore, Beech presented all Moments as “Moments divided
by 100.” Instead of the 23,220 of our example, it was listed as 232. This simplified the longhand addition of the individual Moments into the Total Moment, yet the inaccuracy caused by this “rounding off” method was so tiny as to be negligible.
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