Would you takeoff 25 lbs over gross?

[minitour]

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yep...I bit...dammit...

-mini

 

[Publishers]

altitude above you, runway behind you, and weight you did not need on board for the flight.......... things most useless for a pilot.

 

[TonyC]

... weight you did not need on board for the flight.

We called those navigators.










justajoke, justajoke...







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[transpondersoff]

This guy is baiting us!!!!!!!!!

Well I do hear he is a master baitor.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

altitude above you, runway behind you, and weight you did not need on board for the flight.......... things most useless for a pilot.

I thought it was altitude above you, runway behind you, and fuel in the fuel truck...

 

[Some guy]

I wouldn't go overweight. I would improvise a little though...

1. Fill all empty spaces with helium balloons.
2. Fly without the doors.
3. Does the airport have a catapult?

Can anyone else help improvise?

 

[TonyC]

Can anyone else help improvise?

Have the passengers hold one foot off the floor for the first 30 minutes of flight.



Have one passenger sit in the other's lap.





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[MVSW]

Hey, they're just having a little fun. Actually, I respect you for asking the question. It's shows integrity on your part. Pilots run into this all of the time - to one degree or another. Is it OK for a mid-sized bizjet to takeoff 300 pounds overweight? or an airliner to take off 3,000 overweight? (The percentages are the same.) A couple of years ago I quit a corporate job that I held for 15 years because I consistantly refused to fly airplanes that were being operated "slightly" overweight or "slightly" out of the c.g. envelope. The chief pilot's rationalization...

"They build enough safety margin into the charts so that we can safely ignore them."

No you can't.

'Sled

You said it!! They are there for a reason. I had a professor at my university that was a Cessna test pilot tell me that "those number in the poh are from a NEW airplane". And i bet that plane is not new.

 

[Some guy]

I wouldn't go overweight. I would improvise a little though...

1. Fill all empty spaces with helium balloons.
2. Fly without the doors.
3. Does the airport have a catapult?

Can anyone else help improvise?

Here's another. Warmer fuel weighs less than cold fuel (per gallon). Just have the fuel heated to about 300°F. This be enough to take 25 lbs off.

 

[Milkdud99]

I wouldn't go overweight. I would improvise a little though...

1. Fill all empty spaces with helium balloons.
2. Fly without the doors.
3. Does the airport have a catapult?

Can anyone else help improvise?

Have the Pax jump during rotation!! Less weight for liftoff!