A330-200 Technical Specs

[Flypuppy]

I was wondering if anyone could help me with some technical info for the Airbus A330-200?

Looking specifically for the follwoing:

MAC
LEMAC
Datum Constant
Moment Constant
Operating Empty Index

If there is any info for a freighter version available what would be the pax capacity and what would Balance Arm of the pax compartment be?

Many thanks in advance for any help anyone can give :ok:

[Flypuppy]

what about the same info for the BAe 146-200QT?

[john_tullamarine]

(a) for any aircraft Type, the answers to the TC questions will be in the Type Certificate Data Sheets, AFM, and Weight and Balance Manual (the latter may have various names, though).

(b) for the following - Datum Constant, Moment Constant - the values are quite arbitrary as it depends on the design philosophy of whomever runs up the loading system.

The general form of the index equation is

IU = C1 + ((FS-TD) * WT)/C2

where

IU = index unit for trimsheet data entry
C1 = a constant (optionally) used to get rid of negative IU values
FS = the fuselage station location of a particular load per the OEM aircraft datum
TD = the datum chosen for the loading system (referred to the OEM aircraft datum)

WT = weight
C2 = the non-dimensionalising moment to IU constant

Note that there may be metric to imperial (or vice versa) conversion factors hidden in the equation's constants along the way.

(c) for Operating Empty Index - there are various definitions around so it is important to check that you know what is in, and what is not in, the definition of the day. Otherwise, the form will follow from the general equation.

(d) freighter version - balance arm of the pax compartment usually would not be the way to go as the errors would be too great. The actual loading system structure for any given loading system is particular to the system

[ausav8ter]

Try here...

SmartCockpit - Airline training guides, Aviation, Operations, Safety (http://www.smartcockpit.com/plane/airbus/A330/)

Cheers...