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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 4:35 pm
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Originally Posted by Aero_Safety
Folks,

The further you sit away from the centre of gravity the greater the effect the aircraft pitch, yaw and roll will have on you and your seat (think about it as the pitching motion of a see-saw)

The result is at times you will experience greater vertical & lateral accelerations or buffeting than experienced at the cg. which is approx 30-40% wing chord

It is further complicated by the fact that the aircraft structure is not rigid and therefore structural dynamics (stiffness and damping) modifies my simplistic analysis above.

regards

Aero_Safety
Ummm, what he said !
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