tman wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote:
Tell you what; instead of my "advising you" on what to do specifically
with this flight, let me suggest to you that you run a weight and
balance for this aircraft at full tanks, THEN run the same pax and
baggage loading figuring 1/4 tanks, just to see what this does to the cg.

I did. CG is pretty much center of the acceptable range.
C172 410lbs in the front seats, 170lbs in the back, 30lbs in the baggage
area, fuel to tabs -- CG is "good". Same situation, empty fuel. CG
good too.

A lot of ppl are talking about CG issues. Hey maybe I better check my
math before I fly this thing!

This must be one heavy C172. Most 172s I've flown had a useful load of
~840 lbs. Even with full fuel, this leaves almost 600 lbs of payload.
If you are 100 lbs over gross with fuel at the tabs and 610 lbs of
payload, it sounds like this is either one heavy 172 or you have fuel
tanks with greater than 42 gallon capacity.

Matt