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[Cecil E Monson]

	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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Cecil E Monson
Lucille Hand-Monson
Mountainville, New York   Just a little east of the North Pole

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