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Old March 22nd 10, 11:37 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
ken
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Default Fat boy wants to soar...

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jsbrake wrote:

I flew a L-33 with max pilot weight of 287#.


Inasmuch as the L-33 POH gives the pilot weight range as 121 to 243
pounds, is that something you really want to declare in public? Golly.

When I was 19, I rode my 500cc Yamaha about 90 mph down a 30 mph rural
Delaware dirt road to beat a freight train to an intersection so I
wouldn't have to wait for it to pass. I made it. This
flying-over-placarded-weight thread has the same feel.

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't do the train race today. Besides having been
immortal then, I don't think I understood the idea of error chains and
margins. Several motorcycle crashes later, I came to like margins.

--ken