Sport Pilot Talk

Jim Stewart wrote: B) get checked out by my equally husky CFII neighbor at the field as I had never flown the airplane at gross weight before.

Flying a Taylorcraft with me at 250# - I was ALWAYS flying the thing at gross!! (Dropped several pounds since I started. Will drop more the closer the snow melt comes.

Sean

Jim Stewart wrote: I had never flown the airplane at gross weight before.

Then you'll enjoy another current thread, Jim, where folks are advocating flying over gross!

drseti wrote:

Jim Stewart wrote: I had never flown the airplane at gross weight before.

Then you'll enjoy another current thread, Jim, where folks are advocating flying over gross!

Who is advocating flying over gross? And what is overgross?

Anyway, the OP needs to get checked out in a seaplane.

jnmeade wrote:Who is advocating flying over gross?

Well, not you, but there are folks out there with the attitude that "this airframe will handle 1600 pounds, no problem. 1320 is just an arbitrary number."

And what is overgross?.

In an LSA Airplane, it's that arbitrary number!

drseti wrote: In an LSA Airplane, it's that arbitrary number!

Yes - a big number!