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Subject: Re: Guidance on GTOW
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From: Lorn H Olsen <lorn@dynacomm.us>
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Bryan,

You should never fly the plane too heavy. That being said, what if you  
do?

Lets say that you take off too heavy land and the gear collapses.  
First of all it was stupid to do that. Now are you going to call your  
insurance company and say that you set the maximum gross weight to  
1,685 and you were flying at 1,800 and therefore they should not have  
to pay the $35,000 to repair the plane. Boy oh boy are you a nice and  
honest guy.

I am really glad that you are so honest. I changed my gross weight to  
1,900. The insurance companies are happy to fix my plane if I do  
something stupid like fly at my gross and have an accident.

Lorn

> From: Bryan Wullner <vonjet@gmail.com>
> Date: June 26, 2009 2:14:31 PM EDT
> .
> .
> I could see assigning 1800 lbs but 400lbs over the published limit?
> I realize you can take the risk of how the aircraft will behave or  
> if the gear will handle the heavier loads since its your airplane  
> but if our goal is promote safe operation of these aircraft and  
> reduce accidents why would you want to assign a number higher than  
> what the designer assigned?

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Lorn H. 'Feathers' Olsen, MAA, ASMEL, ASES, Comm, Inst
DynaComm, Corp., 248-345-0500, mailto:lorn@dynacomm.us
LNC2, FB90/92, O-320-D1F, 1,570 hrs, N31161, Y47, SE Michigan