Wanting a excel document to calculate CG on Cherokee 6 260

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Would anyone be willing to send a excel spreadsheet to calculate CG for a Cherokee 6 260 that is editable?
 
Do you have an efb of any flavor? They all do this.
 

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First, note the legend which indicates which cells are editable and which do calculations and which are protected.
Next, on whichever sheet you think is closest to your 6, unprotect the sheet by /Toolbar/Review/Unprotect Sheet/. This will make all cells editable. You will need to edit the Data Series for the graph. The Chart's blue dot is your CG as is the data field in blue.
The existing sheets were devised from the aircrafts' TCDS.

Edit as appropriate.
 
Domenick, Thanks very much for this file, but I don't see one for a Cherokee 6 260.
Would you know of a source for the 6 260?
Thanks again,
Bill
 
Piper 260 Pilot said:
Domenick, Thanks very much for this file, but I don't see one for a Cherokee 6 260.
Would you know of a source for the 6 260?
Thanks again,
Bill
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Re-read @Domenick 's note. You need your TCDS to edit the relevant cells in the spreadsheet. Not that hard to do. If for some reason you don't have the TCDS, you can find them online.
 
midlifeflyer said:
Doesn’t want one to edit. Wants someone to create one for them.
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Yeah. This is really a pretty easy thing to do in Excel with some basic Excel skills. And if someone doesn't have those skills, it's a great way to learn them.
 
RussR said:
Yeah. This is really a pretty easy thing to do in Excel with some basic Excel skills. And if someone doesn't have those skills, it's a great way to learn them.
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…especially when you are handed the template (and a pretty darn good one, @Domenick) to show how it’s done.

(The only real challenge is adding the extra seats for display in the graph)
 
Foreflight W&B = EASY!
Once you get your fixed data in (EW, EWCG, arms for seats, fuel, baggage) all you have to do is punch in the weights at the predetermined locations and every flight WnB is 2 minutes! Screenshot for ramp check/dispatch report; boom!
 
RussR said:
Yeah. This is really a pretty easy thing to do in Excel with some basic Excel skills. And if someone doesn't have those skills, it's a great way to learn them.
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Or ask Microsoft Copilot to do it for you.
 
I can send a template that’s populated with my Cub’s weights and arms. Those are easily edited to whatever values you choose. I suspect that’s true for whatever template was already provided.

I use my W&B in Garmin Pilot to optimize my CG for a flight. I did revisit my Excel template a few days ago to determine ballast weights for both of my planes. Once the empty CG is determined, GP is a far better tool.
 
Here's mine. I got it from a similar request many years ago. Just added my data from TCDS. Happy to send to OP.

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