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February 2nd 09, 02:07 AM
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"Peter Dohm" wrote in message ... Therefore, I strongly suspect that a large proportion of LSA aircraft are simply operated over gross. I suspect (and this could lead to a dangerous safety culture) that many LSA's really have two gross weights. One gross weight that satisfies the Light Sport regulation, and a "whisper" gross weight at which they really are operated. The actual engineering of the plane may (or may not) actually support that "whisper" figure. Of course if you guess wrong and die, it is on you. Just look at the useful load of the Cessna 162 with a full fuel payload of 346 #. That means that if you have full tanks and a 200# student you have 146 pounds left over for the instructor and the flight bags etc.. I call that a 1 passenger airplane! Vaughn 
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February 2nd 09, 02:15 AM
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"vaughn" wrote in message ... "Peter Dohm" wrote in message ... Therefore, I strongly suspect that a large proportion of LSA aircraft are simply operated over gross. I suspect (and this could lead to a dangerous safety culture) that many LSA's really have two gross weights. One gross weight that satisfies the Light Sport regulation, and a "whisper" gross weight at which they really are operated. The actual engineering of the plane may (or may not) actually support that "whisper" figure. Of course if you guess wrong and die, it is on you. Just look at the useful load of the Cessna 162 with a full fuel payload of 346 #. That means that if you have full tanks and a 200# student you have 146 pounds left over for the instructor and the flight bags etc.. I call that a 1 passenger airplane! Vaughn I agree. Peter
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February 2nd 09, 05:07 AM
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On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:07:03 GMT, vaughn wrote:
I suspect (and this could lead to a dangerous safety culture) that many LSA's really have two gross weights. One gross weight that satisfies the Light Sport regulation, and a "whisper" gross weight at which they really are operated. The actual engineering of the plane may (or may not) actually support that "whisper" figure. Of course if you guess wrong and die, it is on you. Just look at the useful load of the Cessna 162 with a full fuel payload of 346 #. That means that if you have full tanks and a 200# student you have 146 pounds left over for the instructor and the flight bags etc.. I call that a 1 passenger airplane! Absolutely.
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