Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 00:38:48 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [148.78.247.23] (HELO hestia.email.starband.net) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.5) with ESMTP id 1981161 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 21:31:06 -0500 Received: from starband.net (vsat-148-64-23-255.c050.t7.mrt.starband.net [148.64.23.255]) by hestia.email.starband.net (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h0C2UxIu000761 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 21:31:02 -0500 X-Original-Message-ID: <3E20D36D.90307@starband.net> X-Original-Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 18:31:09 -0800 From: "Hamid A. Wasti" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: Re: [LML] Wing loading References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit IIP wrote: >It has also been landed "repeatedly for >years" at weights around 4,000 lbs. and never had a gear or airframe >problem. > Just wondering, how do you come up with that statement? Who has been routinely flying at those weights and especially landing at them? I am sure that we have all inadvertently taken off a little over gross a few times in our aviation lives in whatever GA plane we happen to be flying. These incidents usually happen because we have loaded lots of people and baggage on a flight where we need to have more fuel than would be allowed by the remaining weight. In these cases, barring an emergency landing immediately after takeoff (an extremely rare occurrence) the landing takes place below the max gross weight. I am willing to accept the statement that people routinely take off above maximum gross weight. I will need something solid to convince me that people routinely land at 25% above gross weight. Hamid