Purposely over loading a 172

[Strega]

Vtoss,


Did you really load 4 passengers in your 172A?  Thats one passenger over the limitation!  You must be a dangerous pilot!

Full article here :

https://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/f ... ether.html

[Vtoss]

Strega, I'm not sure who you think I am or what that has to do with me. Apart from that, where has this person said they overloaded their 172? I think you might have lost the plot somewhere along the way.

[Strega]

Sure vtoss

Why didn't you come to my hanger?

I'm sure you know where it is

[Colonel]

Just in case you forgot, Vtoss, you post on AvCan
as Captain Crap.  You pretend to know everything
about aviation, but you're just a PPL that doesn't
own any aircraft, and you live in LadyBoy BC.

[Slick Goodlin]

[quote author=Strega link=topic=6672.msg17959#msg17959 date=1499493922]4 passengers in your 172A?  Thats one passenger over the limitation!
[/quote]
IIRC there are STCs for that, though I suspect the clipping was just wrong.

[Liquid Charlie]

Overloading is such a silly subject -- every pilot has flown an overloaded aircraft and like I said add the numbers and it gives you an approximation not an actual number. I have flown aircraft that have magically got 500 lbs heavier when they were reweighed -- damn -- flying 500 lbs overloaded for years and no one knew it. When I started in the bush no one actually knew the gross weight of their aircraft. It was all standard loads. Pilot and fuel were never counted. I would say that practice was around for many years with U/G marked in the log book. I must say I have never had an overloaded aircraft scare me but one that was out of C of G certainly has. Life marches on and things change but at the end of the day the aircraft itself could really care less  ;D  and until we start driving over actual scales it's just number on a piece of paper generated by doing your gazintas and we all know that humans are never subject to mistakes.