Written by Stan Burak
As featured in the February 2014 digital 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 running…