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They're doing a survey according to the article, to use as data for their weight calculations. This can only be seen as a good thing. Also, I think I've been w

They're doing a survey according to the article, to use as data for their weight calculations. This can only be seen as a good thing. Also, I think I've been weighed going on smaller planes, say the float plane from Victoria to Vancouver. Am I remembering wrong? I'm really not a beliver in "for your safety" as an excuse for anything, but knowing the proper weight and balance of the plane seems trivially justifiable, and completely worth any intrusion that comes with weighing people.

MattGaiser 3y ago
You are not remembering wrong. And problems with weight and balance have contributed significantly to accidents on commercial carriers, even in the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Midwest_Flight_5481 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Midwest_Flight_5481
- kpw94 3y ago
  As recently as February of this year, weight issues made flights tail hit the runway: https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/software-bug-caused-two-alaska-010000035.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/software... > a software glitch was responsible for the incident. According to the Seattle Times, the tailstrikes occurred largely as the result of a bug in a program sold by a Swedish firm called DynamicSource. The program is supposed to deliver “crucial weight and balance data” that pilots enter into their flight computers to help determine stuff like “how much thrust the engines will provide and at what speed the jet will be ready to lift off.” In this case, the tool delivered faulty data that “seriously undervalued [the] weights for the airplanes.”
  - vore 3y ago
    ...the data [delivered] was on the order of 20,000 to 30,000 pounds light. I don't think this bug is something that would have been resolved by weighing passengers or not.
- Yizahi 3y ago
  Also a Tu-104 crash with all USSR Pacific Fleet admirals and command on board: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Pushkin_Tu-104_crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Pushkin_Tu-104_crash
dabluecaboose 3y ago
> I'm really not a beliver in "for your safety" as an excuse for anything, but knowing the proper weight and balance of the plane seems trivially justifiable, and completely worth any intrusion that comes with weighing people. There have been multiple sensationalized instances where an overweight passenger has been asked to move, to much outrage and outcry. This prevents that for the price of one-time outrage. From memory, I believe the standard practice for weight and balance is to use a standard average/median passenger weight, which is proving troublesome in a day and age with rising obesity weights.
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MattGaiser 3y ago

You are not remembering wrong. And problems with weight and balance have contributed significantly to accidents on commercial carriers, even in the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Midwest_Flight_5481 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Midwest_Flight_5481

kpw94 3y ago
As recently as February of this year, weight issues made flights tail hit the runway: https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/software-bug-caused-two-alaska-010000035.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/software... > a software glitch was responsible for the incident. According to the Seattle Times, the tailstrikes occurred largely as the result of a bug in a program sold by a Swedish firm called DynamicSource. The program is supposed to deliver “crucial weight and balance data” that pilots enter into their flight computers to help determine stuff like “how much thrust the engines will provide and at what speed the jet will be ready to lift off.” In this case, the tool delivered faulty data that “seriously undervalued [the] weights for the airplanes.”
- vore 3y ago
  ...the data [delivered] was on the order of 20,000 to 30,000 pounds light. I don't think this bug is something that would have been resolved by weighing passengers or not.
Yizahi 3y ago
Also a Tu-104 crash with all USSR Pacific Fleet admirals and command on board: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Pushkin_Tu-104_crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Pushkin_Tu-104_crash

dabluecaboose 3y ago

> I'm really not a beliver in "for your safety" as an excuse for anything, but knowing the proper weight and balance of the plane seems trivially justifiable, and completely worth any intrusion that comes with weighing people. There have been multiple sensationalized instances where an overweight passenger has been asked to move, to much outrage and outcry. This prevents that for the price of one-time outrage. From memory, I believe the standard practice for weight and balance is to use a standard average/median passenger weight, which is proving troublesome in a day and age with rising obesity weights.

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