Pietenpol-List: Michael Cuy's Weight & Balance---please see attachment
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 12:11 pm
Original Posted By: "Cuy, Michael D. (GRC-LME0)[Vantage Partners, LLC]"
William Wynne writes:"the reason why I am giving Mike C a hard time on W&B is actually on your behalf: I strongly suspect that Mike is not sharing his W&B because he is at times flying behind the aft limit. That is his choice, but when he then tells new guys like you to build your plane just like his, I think he is doing a disservice. If this is true, your loyalty is to the wrong guy. Mike, when you share the numbers, be aware that I am good enough to know if you are fudging it.Dear William-you have such grand visions of paranoia about why I have not shared my weight and balance. My world is not small enough to worry about what you think of me sharing or not sharing my weight and balancewith the list because the guy I am trying to help (as he stated just yesterday on the Pietenpol list) does in fact have paper copies of my original W&B paperwork in-hand, Mike Perez. I also copied the great notes for Mike Perezthat I had on hand for Mike Perez that Bill Rewey authored on how to do a good W&B on our little Pietnepol airplanes so Mike could have several different ways of doing his own calculations and choose the one that fit his mathematic style and likes best.And thankfully, with the outstanding W&B teachings and guidelines that my Uncle Tony Bingelis authored for us in this wonderful book series on homebuilt aircraft, I was able to conduct an accurate and complete W&B on my airplane and compare that with the dozens of Pietenpol builders whom I had met at Brodhead after measuring their wing set-back, knowing their personal body weights, and talking with them about how their plane flies full fuel, low fuel, long fuselage, short fuselage,extended motor mount, as-plans motor mount and soforth and examining their W&B paperwork to guide me as I built my Pietenpol and made my own decisions. Go ahead and double check my original pencil-drawn and .pdf scanned paperwork from 16 years ago that I prepared for myself, for the FAA MIDO Inspector, and for future owner/operators of my aircraft for when I am long gone but certainly not for you and your little paranoia's about why I haven't posted my numbers to the list. I have better things to do with my life than to fudge my data to see if you can catch any errors and I'm a bit stupid at times but I'm never stupid enough to build and fly my own airplane in an aft-CG condition. You're wasting your time worrying about what you "suspect" others are doing or not doing and what might motivate them and you are distracting from the good nature of this list with negativity and your critical nature that just divides.And William, besides making sure my plane was built to have a very safe and good operating CG range, I took great pains to ensure that my plane was built to the best of my ability, using all the educational reading materials at my disposal, and with the best aircraft-grade materials and aircraft engine overhaul practices of the day so that I could have confidence in flying safely for years to come and so that I would have confidence in giving rides to precious Mom's, Dad's, Grandparents, sons, daughters, school kids, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Aunts, Uncles, little kids, big kids, old guys, young guys, young gals, old gals, Aunts, nieces, nephews, neighbor kids, 4-H kids, Young Eagle kids, my own brother, dearest friend Bill, the EAA photographers in the trenches at New Holstein, an F-18 West Coast Demonstration Team pilot who was building his own RV-6 (named James Shoenberger in case you "suspect that Mike Cuy isn't telling the truth...again.." ) , A Pearl Harbor survivor, an airport bum, people at the Brodhead fly-in and many other fly-in's around Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, a high school friend and his children, his wife, his best friend...... and yes, even Michael Perez, his lovely wife Susan , and his two boys.Even last night I gave a ride to a precious High School senior from the area who means the world to me and her Mom, a Kindergarten school mate of mine from 50 years ago (that would be 1964) (we were 5 when me met) allowed her daughter to take flight with me and I had no reservations about giving her that ride and sharing this wonderful gift of flight that we ultimately build a 2-seat, open cockpit airplane for.Mike C.Ohio[cid:image001.jpg(at)01CFA8D3.1754C130]________________________________________________________________________________
William Wynne writes:"the reason why I am giving Mike C a hard time on W&B is actually on your behalf: I strongly suspect that Mike is not sharing his W&B because he is at times flying behind the aft limit. That is his choice, but when he then tells new guys like you to build your plane just like his, I think he is doing a disservice. If this is true, your loyalty is to the wrong guy. Mike, when you share the numbers, be aware that I am good enough to know if you are fudging it.Dear William-you have such grand visions of paranoia about why I have not shared my weight and balance. My world is not small enough to worry about what you think of me sharing or not sharing my weight and balancewith the list because the guy I am trying to help (as he stated just yesterday on the Pietenpol list) does in fact have paper copies of my original W&B paperwork in-hand, Mike Perez. I also copied the great notes for Mike Perezthat I had on hand for Mike Perez that Bill Rewey authored on how to do a good W&B on our little Pietnepol airplanes so Mike could have several different ways of doing his own calculations and choose the one that fit his mathematic style and likes best.And thankfully, with the outstanding W&B teachings and guidelines that my Uncle Tony Bingelis authored for us in this wonderful book series on homebuilt aircraft, I was able to conduct an accurate and complete W&B on my airplane and compare that with the dozens of Pietenpol builders whom I had met at Brodhead after measuring their wing set-back, knowing their personal body weights, and talking with them about how their plane flies full fuel, low fuel, long fuselage, short fuselage,extended motor mount, as-plans motor mount and soforth and examining their W&B paperwork to guide me as I built my Pietenpol and made my own decisions. Go ahead and double check my original pencil-drawn and .pdf scanned paperwork from 16 years ago that I prepared for myself, for the FAA MIDO Inspector, and for future owner/operators of my aircraft for when I am long gone but certainly not for you and your little paranoia's about why I haven't posted my numbers to the list. I have better things to do with my life than to fudge my data to see if you can catch any errors and I'm a bit stupid at times but I'm never stupid enough to build and fly my own airplane in an aft-CG condition. You're wasting your time worrying about what you "suspect" others are doing or not doing and what might motivate them and you are distracting from the good nature of this list with negativity and your critical nature that just divides.And William, besides making sure my plane was built to have a very safe and good operating CG range, I took great pains to ensure that my plane was built to the best of my ability, using all the educational reading materials at my disposal, and with the best aircraft-grade materials and aircraft engine overhaul practices of the day so that I could have confidence in flying safely for years to come and so that I would have confidence in giving rides to precious Mom's, Dad's, Grandparents, sons, daughters, school kids, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Aunts, Uncles, little kids, big kids, old guys, young guys, young gals, old gals, Aunts, nieces, nephews, neighbor kids, 4-H kids, Young Eagle kids, my own brother, dearest friend Bill, the EAA photographers in the trenches at New Holstein, an F-18 West Coast Demonstration Team pilot who was building his own RV-6 (named James Shoenberger in case you "suspect that Mike Cuy isn't telling the truth...again.." ) , A Pearl Harbor survivor, an airport bum, people at the Brodhead fly-in and many other fly-in's around Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, a high school friend and his children, his wife, his best friend...... and yes, even Michael Perez, his lovely wife Susan , and his two boys.Even last night I gave a ride to a precious High School senior from the area who means the world to me and her Mom, a Kindergarten school mate of mine from 50 years ago (that would be 1964) (we were 5 when me met) allowed her daughter to take flight with me and I had no reservations about giving her that ride and sharing this wonderful gift of flight that we ultimately build a 2-seat, open cockpit airplane for.Mike C.Ohio[cid:image001.jpg(at)01CFA8D3.1754C130]________________________________________________________________________________