Download this excel document to easily calculate your weight & balances as well as take-off & landing distances. The video walks you through which cells in the spreadsheet to change and which ones will auto calculate for you so that it is easy to use for each of your flights. I’ve also set it up so when you print it, you can fold it in half and it will fit nicely with the binder shown in this post.
*If you see any errors, please leave a comment. Remember all FREE cheat sheets need to be modified for your airport and plane and should not replace anything your CFI tells you!
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These are amazing cheat sheets. I’m currently working on my instrument rating and teaching ground school for impending sport pilots, so finding your blog has been super helpful (and the graphics are great)!
Very awesome of you to create this cheat sheet, but its not really a cheat sheet, its how the information should be presented by the textbook authors and ground school instructors. Instead, they try to impress you by how smart they are! Goodluck to you in all your flight endeavors.
I wonder how many people you are helping – a HUGE THANK YOU!!!
Your whole site is unbelievably amazing. I’m prepping for my check ride and there are so many things on here that are helpful. Thank you so much for providing this!!!
This website and resources have been so incredibly helpful for me! Thank you so much!
Thank you for the tips and cheat sheets. These are awesome!
This is terrific – so much out there, but as you are sharing as your yourself train, it’s spot on. I’m going to connect my students to your website. All I can say is you better think seriously about becoming a flight instructor!
Just found your website and IT’S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR to help me organize my study materials, requirements and confusing information so much better. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I AM A BLOND! and I learn the same as you, so thank you so much for this blog and all the information you’ve made available.
This is wonderful material. Currently going through my PPL training, this is going to be a huge assist.
Thank you for all these WONDERFUL cheat sheets! You did it all in one page! Love it.. thanks !! #studetpilot
Very helpful, I had to change very little. Did you do your checkride in a 152? This is a perfect list of quick references to the numbers I need to remember, as you say there are a lot of maneuvers.
This is great! Thank you for this! I am also working on my Instrument Rating and I get so overwhelmed with the readings. This really helps!
Outstanding work!!!
Let me just say your site is amazing!
This website you created is a fantastic resource! The “cheat sheets” are incredible and easy to follow!! Thank you so much for sharing this with us!! I will be using them A LOT:))
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Meira, you’re amazing! I’m a big fan. Wow. What you created is so useful and easy to understand, and you shared it freely? This world needs more Meiras in it! You rock. 😎
Thank you so much for sharing this! You have really helped break concepts down into understandable and easy to read “cheat sheets”. It has made studying so much easier!! :D
What a fantastic website!!! I am preparing for my checkride and your articles and check sheets are awesome helpful!!!Thanks!! Finally I understood Density altitude, pressure altitude and many other concepts with your visual explanations. Thumbs up, and thanks for sharing your hard work. Love Blonds in aviation!!! =)
The stuff you capture here is AMAZING! Thanks for documenting and making it available! I’m going to start working on making a binder right now :-).
I just stumbled on your website and it is great! I’m a full time CFII and this is going to be SO helpful to my students. You do a great job of organizing information and summarizing weather resources.
Wow! Amazing Resource! Love how you put everything in one concise guide! Thank you for sharing!
These are awesome Meira. Thank you
Great stuff. I will use this to teach our young students. Thank you.
You are the only source for excel based aviation checklist and resources that I have been able to find. You are a blessing to us all!
All the resources contained on this site are an invaluable help, and that’s an understatement. The love put into creating these resources is evident. I am recommending this site to everyone I know, and I am using it myself to improve my knowledge and procedures. Thank you for the work put into this site.
Thank you so much for all of these guides. I will have them with me for a long time. Appreciate the time and effort you spent putting these together!! Amazing stuff!
I think I have finally come across someone in aviation that learns the way I do. It has been such a struggle because a lot of the information it feels like you are just supposed to know already or come to the finding on your own! Thank you for all the info!
Thanks so very much!!!! Loved that I can open it up in Excel and switch up the numbers for my own aircraft!
Thank you for creating this website. I too am a visual learner and student pilot. Originally from Maui, now in Florida studying to become a commercial pilot. Keep up the good work.
I am very impressed with your teaching ability and organization of the materials. Amazing that you have taken complexed theory and simplified it. The mind can retain what it understands!
LIFESAVER. THANK YOU!!!
LIFESAVER!!!! Thank you so much :)
This is such an excellent website and graphics! Wow and thank you! From one blond to another :-) I am about to take my check ride for PPL, and this is helping to bring everything together.
Loved your video and idea for this all in one binder!
Wow! Thank you so much Meira! This is so helpful!! The WHY is soooo important and often ignored. I’m an aspiring pilot and I look forward to your’s and everyone’s insights!
I am an aviation management student and was slightly confused on this topic. Your content is really very helpful and easy to understand. Thanks
This is great stuff! Very helpful! Thx
Great info! I’m training for my CLT (Cessna Skymaster) multi-engine and would like to know if you or someone has a fill able form for doing ALL the performance, Takeoff and landing , etc.? Sort of a checklist that I can use to ensure that I perform all calculation for my check-ride? I liked your C172K excel weight and balance, especially since I own a C172K myself. We in the Civil Air Patrol use that program as well.
Many thanks,
Hi Bill,
Thank you for the comment. I’ll be sure to see if I know of anyone who has fillable forms for multi-engine. I’m not quite there yet, so I don’t have anything myself but I’ll keep my ears open for anyone who does. Best luck passing your multi-engine check ride! And if you come up with any cheatsheets yourself, please feel free to send it my way and I’ll add it to this site with your name on it!
The landing and take off distance result does not calulate, no formula in the cells. Is this correct? Cells K10 and M10.
Hi Dom,
Thank you for your comment. So, you are correct, they don’t auto calculate. Only cells K4 & M4 auto calculate for TO/LD distances. Basically you would need to enter everything in the yellow cells and use those numbers to determine the runways distances by looking at the chart below it. I unfortunately don’t know a simple calculation that works. Thanks again.
Thanks, just wanted to confirm I wasn’t missing something.