Backpacker
I think you may need to get the aircaft looked at and the landing gear checked to make sure that it is serviced in accordance with the manual or the nose gear centering cam needs to have the rigging checked, if it s an Eco-flyer a re-weighed Might be in order.
We were asked to cover the mechanical side of an Avionic upgrade on a quite new Eco-flyer and found that the factory weight & balance calculations were a mile out (that's 1.852Km your side of the ditch). We had to re-weigh the aircraft twice to make sure that we got it all correct.
We assumed that this was an isolated incident but if you have evidence that these aircraft are departing the runway on a regular basis then it might be a good time to check that the W&B paperwork issued by the factory is correct, this can only be done by reweighing the aircraft.
The loading rules that your club are applying are useless if the information that you base your loading calculations on are incorect or the landing gear is wrongly serviced, such club rules are made as a knee jerk reaction by those who have not taken the time to fully understand the problem.
There is no reason why a properly loaded and rigged DR400 should not fly safely, misguided club rules like these just cover up more fundamental defects that will come home to bite someone.
Last edited by A and C; 9th Sep 2012 at 07:15.