How to determine your CG
By Stan Burak
As seen in the February 2014 issue of Model Aviation.
Dealing with our aircraft’s center of gravity on our RC models is taken for granted. I want to make it simple and useable to get the flying qualities we want. I have been in aviation for all of my life, and for full-scale aircraft the CG is one of the most important things to check. I have flown aircraft with forward CG and aft CG. In the 1960s I flew a Cessna 182, similar to the 172, but with a larger engine, resulting in a forward CG. Pilots had to make sure to get the nose up before…