Originally Posted by
sea oxen
At 6'2" and 14 1/2 stone, having an instructor who was similarly (and perhaps even a bit better) constructed was a great distraction in a C152. This isn't helpful if you are as lousy at flying as I am.
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So basically the aircraft was over gross weight before you put any gas in it....sure nice to see a flight school setting a good example for its students
At the school I occasionally teach at any instructor that deliberately flew a lesson with the aircraft over its certified max gross weight, would be immediately fired.