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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
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