Gross Weight

LOL!

Fred


"Jose" wrote in message
...
Exactly what we were discussing at work.....

I guess maybe it might relate to how many drinks can I have in a
specified period before driving home.....

Actually, I've found alcohol to be quite useful in aviation. In
situations where I'd be over gross, I have a few six-packs of beer. If
the pilot is already flying, then his weight can be subtracted from the
manifest, allowing more cargo, or more fuel. By getting the passengers
suitably high also, I can reclaim almost all the payload that way. So
then, after the passengers have boarded the airplane, I calculate how much
extra fuel each one represents, and have the FBO fill up one of those big
fifty gallon drums full and we load it into the cargo compartment... you
know, the one in the back that says "200 pounds max". Well, ok 50 gallons
is 300 pounds, but if we average that over the whole airframe we're only
25 pounds over per passenger (and the bigger the passenger, the less that
25 pounds is, percent wise). And more fuel makes you safer anyway.

So then I get on the runway, open the throttle, and climb as fast as I
can. Really pull back on that yoke - the plane should climb like a bat
out of hell, since it's virtually empty.

Remember - eight bottles, then throttle.

Jose
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