My wife and I would love to purchase an RV-7 or 7A.
However, when I look at Van's specifications I see: 1800 lbs. GW - 1130 lbs. EW - 252 lbs. fuel wt. = 418 lbs. available for passengers and baggage.
I am 6'4" and 220 lbs. and my wife is 5'9" and 205 lbs. That 425 lbs. puts us 7 lbs. over gross with no baggage. Neither of us is obese -- just two big people.
I fully understand that technically we are too heavy to legally fly the RV in the above example.
Recently we have attended two RV Fly-ins. At those fly-ins we observed several RV's arrive which had pilot and passenger whose combined weight clearly would have exceeded our own.
What is going on here? Are the RVer's mentioned above simply disregarding the weight limitations? Is it possible that some RV's have a higher certified max gross weight?
I'm ready to shift my attentions to production aircraft to get around the gross weight limitations.
However, when I look at Van's specifications I see: 1800 lbs. GW - 1130 lbs. EW - 252 lbs. fuel wt. = 418 lbs. available for passengers and baggage.
I am 6'4" and 220 lbs. and my wife is 5'9" and 205 lbs. That 425 lbs. puts us 7 lbs. over gross with no baggage. Neither of us is obese -- just two big people.
I fully understand that technically we are too heavy to legally fly the RV in the above example.
Recently we have attended two RV Fly-ins. At those fly-ins we observed several RV's arrive which had pilot and passenger whose combined weight clearly would have exceeded our own.
What is going on here? Are the RVer's mentioned above simply disregarding the weight limitations? Is it possible that some RV's have a higher certified max gross weight?
I'm ready to shift my attentions to production aircraft to get around the gross weight limitations.