Do ALL modern aircraft, particulary airliners and private jets, have weight sensors on all landing gear to determine take off and landing weight in real time so as to determine take off speed and approximate landing distance? If so were are they installed and if not why not? Are there any attempts to install these on older jet airliners?
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asked Oct 15, 2017 at 23:07
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$\begingroup$ Related: How does a commercial airliner measure its weight/mass? and also How do airlines handle uncertainty in passenger weight for weight and balance calculations? $\endgroup$– minsCommented Oct 15, 2017 at 23:31
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$\begingroup$ Related: Do some airplanes have weighing scales on the landing gear? $\endgroup$– Jeffrey BosboomCommented Oct 16, 2017 at 0:47
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No, the 737 does not have such sensors installed because it is less expense to compute the zero-fuel weight (and thus takeoff and enroute and landing weights, by adding fuel on board) by taking the known aircraft empty weight and adding to that the weights of the people and things that are on board.
I've never heard of any attempt to install any such sensors on a 737. Some FMC software can use in-flight performance data to estimate gross weight and alert the pilots if that estimate varies too much from the computed weight, but that is an entirely different approach.