Roy Smith wrote:
I also know that all the planes we have will get off the ground just fine a
little over-gross. I have far less confidence in their ability to make it
to the runway with the tanks a little under-empty.


Too true. My personal rule is at the point where I'm starting to worry about
fuel, I don't have enough.

All the pontification I've been reading from the purists with the totalizers is
getting to be a bit much for me. I've never flown an aircraft with a totalizer
and somehow have survived the experience.

And as far as the trip that started this whole thread goes, I don't see what
everybody is whining about. To me, it sounded like a typical trip in a new (to
him) aircraft. Stuff like the transponder failure are par for the course.

Apparently flying a whole fleet of crappy aircraft has made me somewhat more
forgiving in that regard, I suppose. I *expect* things not to all work at the
same time.



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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com