aero99
just a member, not senior
- Joined
- Nov 26, 2001
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Can someone explain to me how aircraft manufactures come up with the max weights for their plans, i.e. max ramp weights, max take off/landing weight, useful ect.
Do they load the planes up and test at clean and dirty stall configurations and then magically come up with a figure that is far enough away from the criticle weight for slight mis-calculations or is there a mathematical formula.
I was talking to a caravan pilot last night that said he will fly 300-400 lbs overweight sometimes with no worries. His reasoning was that by the time he lands he has burned enough fuel to have a safe landing weight. Then he showed me an article in Plane and Pilot that had a caravan hauling lions in Africa and they were flying 1100 lbs overgross. ??
Did I miss something during weight and balance training?
Do they load the planes up and test at clean and dirty stall configurations and then magically come up with a figure that is far enough away from the criticle weight for slight mis-calculations or is there a mathematical formula.
I was talking to a caravan pilot last night that said he will fly 300-400 lbs overweight sometimes with no worries. His reasoning was that by the time he lands he has burned enough fuel to have a safe landing weight. Then he showed me an article in Plane and Pilot that had a caravan hauling lions in Africa and they were flying 1100 lbs overgross. ??
Did I miss something during weight and balance training?