ORIGINAL: John Redman
The standard point for the CG on the Bobcat, Bobcat XL, and the new Composite Bobcat are all the same. You balance the aircraft with the gear down, UAT full, and at the drilled hole in the bottom of the booms. Aircraft should sit just slightly nose down. You can fine tune the CG to your personal taste after flying.
John,
I was just balancing a Bobcat Standard that I just finished building and something occured to me when I was doing the balancing. The instructions say to balance the airplane with only the UAT full but the main fuel tanks are ahead of the CG. I have never flown any of my planes to empty tanks so once you fill the tanks wouldn't that make the plane incredibly nose heavy and also nose heavy on landings? A little nose heavy is one thing but if you land with 8 oz of fuel in each main tank that would make you 16oz nose heavy wouldn't it?
Patrick.