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Hangar Flying / Re: Gross weight question - long EZ
« on: January 14, 2011, 03:39:19 AM »
Thank you all for the information;  I have e-mailed Dale Martin. 

As for the "too heavy", what would that be?  I have read that the design specd 710 empty weight might be optimistic, so what empty weights do the other EZ's on this forum have?

-Neil

 

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Hangar Flying / Re: Gross weight question - long EZ
« on: January 13, 2011, 12:32:58 PM »
Thanks Bruce. 

My situation is that I am shopping for an ez that somebody else built.  I am not sure how that affects item #6 on your list.  I am wondering if it is possible to change the GW that the original builder specified, and if to what limit is a practical safe GW as proven by many other EZ flyers.

Thanks,

Neil

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Hangar Flying / Re: Gross weight question - long EZ
« on: January 12, 2011, 04:01:50 PM »
OK, thanks.  I had previously missed the complete narrative form the NTSB.

But on the subject of gross weight, I have read that people often exceed the rutan-specified gross weight limits for their ez's and feel that it is perfectly safe.  Why is this, and if this is a common practice, then what is the practical limit?

I fully understand that exceeding the gross weight is a bad practice, but I also also understand that many people can placard the plane to a higher limit.

Thanks in advance.

-Neil

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Hangar Flying / Gross weight question - long EZ
« on: January 11, 2011, 01:37:23 AM »
Reading accident reports, I came across this:  http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=35388

Does the exceeding gross weight sound right?  I know that not all detail are disclosed but doing the quick math using the wikipedia empty and gross weights seems to be barely in spec...

Being new to the EZ scen, I must be missing something.

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For Sale/Wanted / Re: Ride in Long-EZ
« on: December 29, 2010, 01:41:49 PM »
Me too!  Any chance of being able to check one out tomorrow?  Located in Rosamond, but not a problem to drive to Whiteman.

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