From my understanding, as with a lot of
planes, the gross weight limiting factor on the 4P with either the TSIO550 or
the PropJet is the landing weight that can be handled
by the gear. I don’t know if the
gear has been beefed up over the years or not though to go along with these
increases. I think there is plenty of
power for takeoff at 4000, especially in the propjet, but if you bounced a
landing in with 4k, you’d be in trouble.
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Shannon
Knoepflein <---> kycshann@kyol.net
1. Does the 3550 lb gross
weight apply to all IV-P's or just to the turbine IV-P's?
3. I have heard builders
express confidence that the IV-PT can handle a max weight of 4000 pounds,
has anyone flown their plane with that much weight?