Cessna-Piper
Ditto Cessna 182. Full load, full fuel, and hundreds of miles range, plus ability to do grass strips.
With regard to overweight training flights the problem here is the 'habit' overspilling to your proposed passenger flights.
The vast % number of incidents/accidents relating to take off (Or failing to take off) are due to pilots attempting such flights which fall outside of the aircrafts PERFORMANCE ability.The flight manual has this information, but it becomes critical when everything starts to get FULL, and the OAT is high. Frequently a machine will get out of a regional airport sized situation only to Fail to clear the hedge at a local club grass field.The benefit of a '182' type, is it has the power and a VP prop to do the job with a margin of SAFETY.
Last edited by POBJOY; 16th May 2012 at 08:45.