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

On Mar 22, 7:37*pm, ken wrote:

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.

The ship I flew was placarded for a maximum of 287# from the factory
-- I can only assume that the factory approved of that pilot weight,
regardless of what might be in the POH.
I never stated that I flew it at that weight, but I understand how one
might have inferred such.