ORIGINAL: RealPilotAce
For those of you who think they are great at converting centimeters. to inches. um... think twice.
Me, a 41 Year old, with a math degree, Systems Analyst, pretty bright went ahead and converted the 10 cm. CG to 2.54 inches.
Well, ITS NOT 2.54" it's ~3.75 Inches...DOHH
Added so much lead the plane could have been a sinker if I was fishing. Luckily I was watching some threads on this board and it got me thinking, why was one person also having issues. So, before long I broke out a ruler and behold!
Thank the man upstairs I didn't attempt to have flown it since the weather has been freezing in the N.E. lately. Now I can go back and remove all that lead and start over.
Moral of this story... don't think you are too smart, measure twice and double check against a resource. If it seems out of whack, it probably is.
When I was at school I had to learn both systems and let me tell you now that 10 cm is a lot it is in fact 10% of a meter (about 3 ft 3). The conversion is 25.4 mm to 1 inch which when you put into 10 you get just under 4 (3.937007874 to be exact). So you are wrong on both counts CG a hair under 4. Another useful conversions are 2.2 pounds to 1 kg, 28.35 grams to 1 oz, 3.78 litres to 1 us gallon and 4.54 litres to 1 imperial gallon.
James