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"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com wrote:

wrote:
Many (locals and newsgroups) give me a hard time as I almost always
fly with full fuel, but I'm paranoid about fuel.


Don't let them beat you down. I'd rather fly overgrossed than out of
fuel. My personal fuel rule has become: if I'm worried about it, I
don't have enough.

Same here. I know from experience that the airplane flies just fine a
little bit overgross. I have a pretty good hunch that it won't fly very
well at all with the tanks a little bit under empty.

Looking at it another way, I'd rather have the FAA ****ed at me than
gravity ****ed at me.