after thousands of hrs flyin all sorts of twins around africa , hot high, (and thats just the pilot) any weight eqauls over weight.
if you are scheduled full and asked to cary a bit more it makes no difference you were landin staight ahead as soon as you loaded more than yerself into the aircraft. perf c and e is a caa joke.
the only twins that can save yer ass are the otter and buffalo, both bush aircraft (the latter is perf a anyway). even in the buff alanding staight ahead was the required thing in cetain speed weight configs. african pilots operate in this world all the time and are upto speed on the pitfalls of piston twin flyin and still quite regularly go down. this guy may have made a mistake but as an ex bush piston twin driver , there but for the grace of god go i.
leave him alone, hes dead and so are his pax, a toast in the aero club and move on. i,ve got five fatties and samsonites in a baron tomorrow and i need a drink.
batty