> Um, Fred, you missed the obvious. The ideal weight for a slightly
> above average (by North American standards) height, medium build, man
> is 160 lb and the comparable woman is 134 lb, so unless we have two
> taller than average people, there's about 46 extra pounds sitting
> in the seats. There isn't enough room in the panel for 46 lb of
> avionics!!
> Best regards,
> Rob Housman
If so, his wife maybe should have no access to his posts, but I do have some
concrete-filled
avionics on the shelf that'll fit and whack away at that 46 pounds!
And it now looks like ILS, VOR/comm, GPS map/comm, xponder, marker, traffic
detector, audio panel, gyros, AofA, backup ASI to MicroEncoder, stupid ELT
remote thing, one eyeball vent, and I'll still have room for 2 3-1/8" whatever
(stock panel).
I just took the inquirer's #'s at face (+ he forgot the weight of the aux tank)
so about 820# empty for a tri-gear. On the published list, only one that's near
sales brochure weight is suspiciously under - may have just a "cat and a duck"
for instrumentation, if you've heard that one before, or see:
http://www.forpilots.com/archive/rec.aviation.piloting/21/msg21660.htm
which could add that cats have very sensitive hearing, able to hear collapsing
tappets, so no engine instruments needed.
Reg,
Fred F.
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