marius

Gotcha, sounds good--my only issue, then, is that I'm not confident in the basic weight and fuel weight stations that I have. What I have is as follows in the format of weight/station: Basic weight: 87,000/730 Crew weight: 160/160 Fuel weight: 38000/750 I can believe the crew station, but, according to that DD form, the basic weight and fuel weights look like they are for a C-130J-30, not for the plain "J" model, since they located the aircraft's CG to around the start of the ramp--which is behind the wing. If I can get these updated or confirmed...that'd be a huge help. EDIT: I just confirmed that these values are for the stretched aircraft. However, I need them for the short aircraft. Any takers?

I'm a student doing a paper design of an aircraft to be launched from a C-130J at 15,000 ft and am trying work out a weight and balance for the aircraft...but I'm not finding a terrible amount of information to do it with (e.g., basic weight/arm, crew arm, fuel arm, etc.). Also, as I'm looking into it, I'm seeing some contradictory things, such as the load planning chart in the 2015 DTR III-V-17 (http://www.ustranscom.mil/dtr/part-iii/dtr_part_iii_app_v.pdf) shows a DD form 2130-2 for C-130 models E/H/J (the picture on the form says B/E/H, but the caption for the form notes E/H/J...I'm believing the caption for now) wherein the ramp starts around station 749, whereas the Lockheed specs on this website for the J model say load station 1022. What's the difference? Or is can the DTR reference only be applied to earlier models of the aircraft? I'm just not sure. Long and short of this is this: does anyone have some basic weight and balance info (i.e., basic weight/arm, crew arm, fuel arm) and some direction for what I can do with the stations this load planning form? Any help is appreciated.