Rule'S Of Thumb

[dimit]

Opps, wrong thread!

 

DM

[Iceman]

After years of annual PPC's and actually doing proper weight and balance computations I don't need this ROT but it might be useful to someone else.

 

To find the ARM:

 

Moment = ARM

Weight

 

to remember the formula use this:

 

Man = Action!

Women

 

[rainman]

After years of annual PPC's and actually doing proper weight and balance computations I don't need this ROT but it might be useful to someone else.

 

To find the ARM:

 

Moment = ARM

Weight

 

to remember the formula use this:

 

Man = Action!

Women

 

 

HA, good thing you clarified "women" instead of "wife"...I would never have remembered the " action" part!

Too funny

[Max Continuous]

30 lbs per 1% tq works and is accurate for the Jet Ranger but 300lbs for 10% tq is better suited for field ops. As I've never had a customer ask to add 30 lbs to my payload.

Always a good idea to know your Tq at hover. (May seem like a no brainer as it's part of c of g and power assurance prior to departure check) That way when the customer throws you a curve on a mission you aren't stuck humming and hawing.

"can we land down there and pick up my surveyor?" = 85% Tq departure power + unexpected surveyor = 450 lbs in reserve so "No problem" and a little bit left for the wife and kids! Of course there are always operational variables ie wind/heat/size of LZ etc. That's why we call it rule of thumb.

Be safe,

Max

[pilot5]

Thought it might be nice if we could pool our collective knowledge and share some rules of thumb regarding our aircraft.

 

Here are a couple which are pretty well known but I'm sure there are a lot more out there.

 

Jetranger Fuel QTY gauge - Each 5gal increment equals about 10 minutes flying time.

 

Astar (B2) Fuel QTY gauge - Each 10% increment equals about 20 minutes flying time.

 

There is also one about the Jetranger torgue and weight correlation which I have now forgotten.

 

Anymore useful tidbits out there?

 

 

Found this: Not sure if the "rule of thumb is politically correct.. No thread drift intended!

 

 

Rule of thumb

 

Meaning

 

A means of estimation made according to a rough and ready practical rule, not based on science or exact measurement.

 

Origin

 

The 'rule of thumb' has been said to derive from the belief that English law allowed a man to beat his wife with a stick so long as it is was no thicker than his thumb. In 1782, Judge Sir Francis Buller is reported as having made this legal ruling and in the following year James Gillray published a satirical cartoon attacking Buller and caricaturing him as 'Judge Thumb'. The cartoon shows a man beating a fleeing woman and Buller carrying two bundles of sticks. The caption reads "thumbsticks - for family correction: warranted lawful!"

 

It seems that Buller was hard done by. He was notoriously harsh in his punishments and had a reputation for arrogance, but there's no evidence that he ever made the ruling that he is infamous for. Edward Foss, in his authoritative work The Judges of England, 1870, wrote that, despite a searching investigation, "no substantial evidence has been found that he ever expressed so ungallant an opinion".

 

It's certainly the case that, although British common law once held that it was legal for a man to chastise his wife in moderation (whatever that meant), the 'rule of thumb' has never been the law in England.

 

Even if people mistakenly supposed the law to exist, there's no reason to believe that anyone ever called it the 'rule of thumb'. Despite the phrase being in common use since the 17th century and appearing many thousands of times in print, there are no printed records that associate it with domestic violence until the 1970s, when the notion was castigated by feminists. The responses that circulated then, which assumed the wife-beating law to be true, may have been influenced by Gillray's cartoon or were possibly a reaction to The Rolling Stones' song 'Under My Thumb', which was recorded in 1966.

 

The phrase itself has been in circulation since the 1600s. In 1692, it appeared in print in Sir William Hope's training manual for aspiring swordsmen, The Compleat Fencing-master:

 

"What he doth, he doth by rule of Thumb, and not by Art."

 

The origin of the phrase remains unknown. It is likely that it refers to one of the numerous ways that thumbs have been used to estimate things - judging the alignment or distance of an object by holding the thumb in one's eye-line, the temperature of brews of beer, measurement of an inch from the joint to the nail to the tip, or across the thumb, etc. The phrase joins the whole nine yards as one that probably derives from some form of measurement but which is unlikely ever to be definitively pinned down. The Germans have a similar phrase to indicate a rough approximation - 'pi mal daumen' which translates as 'pi [3.14…] times thumb'.

 

The earliest such 'measurement' use that I can find referred to in print is in a journal of amusing tales with the comprehensive title of Witt's Recreations - Augmented with Ingenious Conceites for the Wittie and Merrie Medicines for the Melancholic. It was published in 1640 and contains this rhyme:

 

If Hercules tall stature might be guess'd

But by his thumb, the index of the rest,

In due proportion, the best rule that I

Would chuse, to measure Venus beauty by,

Should be her leg and foot:

 

The 'rule of leg' never caught on.