You mean to say that only passenger weight went up? I seem to recall taking
my check ride with an instructor that had to sit sideways in the 150, and I
was crammed up against the door. And the 150 had the extended range
tankage, which of course was kept full in the Alaska temperatures, so that
we took almost 5000 ft of runway and stayed in ground effect for another
mile just to get in the air. I suspect we had about 500 lbs of "souls" on
board that 2-passenger aircraft!
Werner
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Liquid weights
<<Avgas and JetA weigh in at 6#/gal, water is 8ish, I would guess oil is
closer to 6, maybe a bit more. A big bucket swinging around on a wet
oily wing seems to weigh a TON!>>
For flight planning purposes, avgas weighs 6 pounds per gallon and engine
oil
weighs 7.5 pounds. Or so said the FAA when I went to ground school. Of
course, standard passenger weight was 170 pounds in those days and just
recently
that number was raised since the percentage of obese passengers has gone up.
Way
up.
BTW, the oil tanks in a Grumman Goose hold 14 gallons per side.
RLE
