Leigh At Southern Cross we have a couple of pairs of scales in the pie cart. Any people which are of questionable size are checked on them first.
It is also standard practise that I ask about the potential flyers weight when selling AEF gift vouchers, to avoid potential embarrassment to all parties. People over 100 kg are precluded from flying in our ASK-13. People over 110 kg can't fly in any of our aircraft. I don't think any sane club member would want to risk our insurance coverage by by doing something so silly. People over 100 kg also have to find an instructor 90kg or less that gives them a combined weight of around 190 kg (varies between IS-28 and DG-1000) to fly in the other seat with them. On some days of the roster, this is a problem. This also poses some challenges for instructors who suddenly find that they can't fly with very many of our student pilots or AEFs, especially the larger ones. What this does for keeping current enough to be revalidated, I do not know, but it can't be good. Fine for me at around 65-68kg, where my weight has been for > 15 years now. Still, I like to put the really heavy passengers (there's only been one in my time as AEI) in back to minimise trim problems. Jason On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 22:20:48 +0830, Leigh Bunting wrote > Hi All, > > Recently we had to turn away a potential member because of his > weight. He understood the predicament that it could put the club in. > Hopefully, it might provide some incentive for him to do something > about his built-in ballast and return to us. > > Seeing recent publicity about changes to CASA figures for passenger > weights on commercial aircraft, personal mass is one aspect of > society that is starting to bite us. > > With the girth of people on the increase and figures published that 60% > of the population have a BMI above recommended limits, the maximum > cockpit weight is becoming an item that is being tested and often > exceeded to one degree or another. > > Balak's K21's are able to take 110kg max in the front seat, as long > as the rear seat doesn't exceed about 95kg, but a lot of other two-seaters > - especially older designs cannot handle these loads. > > How are other clubs handling this issue when prospective members are > all-to-obviously outside of limits? What about existing members, > whose shadow has grown to Cb size over time? > > Leigh Bunting > Colonel Light Gardens > South Australia > <Open Windows and let the bugs in> > > -- > * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. > * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message > * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information. -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information.
