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Terrance,
For safety reasons, you should fly below the factory recommended gross weights or work your way up, very slowly, to and possibly through them.
For liability, monetary and legal reasons, you should set your gross weight at the maximum that you think that you might ever attempt to fly at or even higher.
Suppose you set your gross weight at 1,400 lbs and fly at 1,450 and have an incident. The insurance company would not have to pay your claim.
By the way, my O-320 gross weight is set at 1,900 lbs.
Lorn
Date: November 29, 2007 11:28:44 AM GMT-05:00
Hi Marv, Getting close to asking for airworthiness... and noticed my Pilots Operating Handbook gives Limit Gs' allowed as 4.5, but does not specify for which of the three airframes the POH covers: 235, 320 and 360. It also gives allowable gross as 1400# for the 235, and 1685# for the 320 and 360. Sounds like the gross limit for the 235 is because of lower HP, not airframe... do you have a reference spec? thanks, Terrence O'Neill
-- Lorn H. 'Feathers' Olsen, MAA, DynaComm, Corp. LNC2, FB90/92, O-320-D1F, 1,300 hrs, N31161, Y47, SE Michigan
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