Fat boy wants to soar...

I flew a L-33 with max pilot weight of 287#. The POH of my Kestrel 19
limits pilot weight through CoG limitations and MTOW (dry).

As for the BGA allowance, I thought it was 3% -- at least that's
what's I've seen on the BGA Data Certificates.

On Mar 22, 11:40*am, jsbrake wrote:
I flew a L-33 with max pilot weight of 287#. *The POH of my Kestrel 19
limits pilot weight through CoG limitations and MTOW (dry).

As for the BGA allowance, I thought it was 3% -- at least that's
what's I've seen on the BGA Data Certificates.

BGA allowance varies by airframe. I've never seen above 10%, which
was two seaters.

Frank Whiteley

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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