"Andrew Sarangan" wrote in message
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Actually, I don't believe flying at max gross is necessarily safe
either.

I can certainly agree with that. There's safe, and there's legal. Safe is
not always legal, and legal is not always safe.

As a pilot, it is our duty (in my opinion) to take the more conservative of
either limitation, except under duress (in which case it could still be
argued the chosen action is still the most conservative action available at
the moment).

Pete