What MTV said! Call your AP. Don't call the FSDO GA Maintenance Inspector (he's probably a jet guy anyway!).

gunny

GumpAir wrote:Work a C206/207/208, whatever... You'll be changing seat configurations 5-10-15 times a day. And your manifest W&B will reflect how you're set up each leg of a trip.
Gump

HA!, including the one when the plane is on the tail skid and everyone is leaning forward.

In many aircraft, the seat load is very different to the floor load.
Some seats are suspended from the side, or partially from the side.
This can affect cg and also structural capability of the floor.

Ah, memories triggered from this thread:

This didn't happen often, but I can recall a couple of charters I did, which required "modifying" a 182.

The first was one of my very first charters after passing my ATCO check ride, carrying baggage from the A Bar A (more properly written A-A) Ranch a little southeast of Saratoga, WY to Denver Stapleton, for the daughter of the Revlon company and her kids. We took the copilot seat and back seat out, and stacked the luggage in there, and the Revlon family flew out in our T310. At Denver, their lackey handed me a $20 tip. Wow! I didn't tell him that I was a practicing lawyer and that this gig was for all practical purposes a paying hobby. After all, $20 38 years ago was like a $75 tip today--a nice dinner for 4 at a decent restaurant.

The other one was the longest 135 flight I took, from Laramie to Iowa City, in the same 182. We took the copilot seat out, because my passenger, a truck driver who'd been badly injured in a crash on I-80, was in a full body cast. Somehow the ambulance folks shoe-horned him into the airplane, and he sat somewhat cattywampus all the way to Iowa City, where another crew of EMTs extricated him from the 182. I don't know what would have happened if we'd had to set down somewhere, and he needed to get out. He wouldn't have been much help, and I sure couldn't do it alone.

Cary

slowhawk wrote:

GumpAir wrote:Work a C206/207/208, whatever... You'll be changing seat configurations 5-10-15 times a day. And your manifest W&B will reflect how you're set up each leg of a trip.
Gump

HA!, including the one when the plane is on the tail skid and everyone is leaning forward.

Never had one that wouldn't set the nose back on the ground with just a wee bit of throttle.

Sometimes more wee bit of throttle than others!

Gump

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GumpAir wrote:

slowhawk wrote:

GumpAir wrote:Work a C206/207/208, whatever... You'll be changing seat configurations 5-10-15 times a day. And your manifest W&B will reflect how you're set up each leg of a trip.
Gump

HA!, including the one when the plane is on the tail skid and everyone is leaning forward.

Never had one that wouldn't set the nose back on the ground with just a wee bit of throttle.

Sometimes more wee bit of throttle than others!

Gump

Yeah, but sometimes it can be a long climb up to that pilot seat.

MTV