On 2008-04-05, Roy Smith wrote:
In article ,
"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com wrote:
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.

While this is my philosophy as well, I do have to wonder: if an aircraft is
designed for a particualr gross weight, does consistently flying it over
gross put stress on the airframe that will, in the long term, weaken the
structure?
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