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[Robert Brooks]

The only problem I remember LeCroy having with theirs was when it was 
landed in Spring Valley with the wheels up.  The pilot said he had 
the  wheels down and locked and the indicator lights were lite.  The 
investigators thought it might have been pilot error, seems that the wheels 
and flaps were still in the up position and the lights were off. Did a real 
number on the bottom of the plane and wing, not to mention the prop and 
whatever damage was done to the engine.

One of the sales guys on the plane slept thru the whole thing.  They were 
coming back from a show in Chicago.

Bob


At 08:14 AM 3/19/04 -0500, Cecil E Monson wrote:
>         The company I worked for initially hired aircraft and pilots
>for day trips here and there before the owner bought his Cessna twin
>jet executive aircraft. It was not unusual for pilots flying us around
>to be very leery of overloads - especially in mountainous terrain. One
>time in southern VA when we wanted to survey an area up north of
>Lynchburg in the Blue Ridge mountains, the pilot made us drop off one
>of the passengers in Martinsville before continuing on. This was after
>I told him we wanted to look at both sides of the ridge including
>the Shenandoah Valley area and the east side into Virginia. For one,
>I never doubted a pilot's desire and felt he was the one who should
>know what he was doing.
>
>         FWIW, I just looked at some accident reports on the Cessna 210
>and most of them seemed to involve "sputtering" and "cutting out" and
>pilot error and none of them mentioned overloading.
>
>Cecil
>
>>Isn't the Cessna 210 the one with the notoriously narrow flight
>>envelope?  I seem to remember some comments being made about that when
>>we were loading the plane to fly over to Bartlesville from Stillwater.
>>Hoyt Walkup was our pilot, and he used to line up the passengers and
>>assign seats based on body weight.  He was always unhappy when he had
>>five passengers.  Three or fewer was a lot better.
>>Larry
>
>
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>what you said.
>
>Cecil E Monson
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