Cessna 182 Weight & Balance Calculator

The forward boundary: with two substantial front-seaters, full fuel and an empty back, the CG sits far forward — legal or just past it depending on serial — and the symptom set is the 182's signature: heavy elevator forces in the flare, early nosewheel touchdown, and the firewall damage history that follows nose-first arrivals. The cure is loading awareness (bags aft, fuel planning) and the flare technique instructors drill on type. Check both takeoff and landing CG; burning 500 lb of fuel at arm 46.5 moves it.

So the arithmetic demonstrates correctly before you customise it — but the samples are typical published Cessna 182T Skylane values, NOT your aircraft: empty weight and arm differ per serial (every repair, avionics change and repaint moves them), and the legally controlling figures are your aircraft's current weighing record and POH limits. Treat the first edit — replacing the empty-aircraft row — as part of using the tool, and keep the page with your real numbers in your flight bag.

Yes — fuel burn moves the CG (toward wherever the tanks aren't), and several types are takeoff-legal but landing-illegal on the same flight plan. The two-minute habit: compute takeoff CG, then zero (or reduce) the fuel row and read the landing CG. If either end sits near a limit, the loading needs rethinking before engine start, not in the flare.

By design: operational records are sensitive, and the simplest privacy guarantee is never transmitting them. Local-only storage means zero servers, zero breach surface and zero subscription. If you work from several devices, keep one as the master record and move snapshots with the CSV export.

Yes — one click exports your complete load sheet as a CSV file that opens in Excel, Google Sheets or Numbers. The export preserves every column exactly as entered, so you can print it, attach it to paperwork, or hand it to an inspector, buyer or insurance underwriter as a supporting summary alongside your official records.