Timeline for How do airlines handle uncertainty in passenger weight for weight and balance calculations?
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| Jun 4, 2016 at 19:10 | history | edited | Dave | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 4, 2016 at 18:21 | history | edited | Dave | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 4, 2016 at 18:15 | history | edited | Dave | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 4, 2016 at 18:02 | comment | added | Dave | The answer to that is long ill add it to the body of my response. | |
| Jun 4, 2016 at 16:19 | comment | added | Christopher Howlin | A very low probability example to be sure. The tolerances of the ranges is what I am trying to figure out - how these CG or mass ranges are designed to account for this, or not as the case may be! | |
| Jun 3, 2016 at 13:53 | history | edited | Dave | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 3, 2016 at 13:50 | comment | added | Dave | I think its just statistically unlikely that the airplane ends up full of 200LB Summer Males all sitting in the rear, and a bunch of unattended minors in first class. It just not really feasible to weigh everyone, since the plane has a CG range it can have a mass range that moves around a bit as well. | |
| Jun 3, 2016 at 8:40 | comment | added | Christopher Howlin | A very informative answer! I read through the links and this is what I have got from them: 1) there are various considerations that need to be taken into account in order to reduce the survey bias. 2) If the pilot believes there is a significant deviation, then certain measures should be applied - weighing the passengers, or use of pre-approved non-standard weights for certain passengers. However, there is no mention about handling the final uncertainty in total passenger weight, which makes me wonder whether if this is not significant enough to be of concern in practice? | |
| Jun 1, 2016 at 15:01 | history | edited | Dave | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 1, 2016 at 14:52 | history | edited | Dave | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 1, 2016 at 13:51 | history | answered | Dave | CC BY-SA 3.0 |