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Old 08-31-2017 | 07:45 PM
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To change the subject again, PIREP on the Automatic Weight and Balance

We were an AUTO Weight and Balance Test flight today. Overall worked pretty well, we had an Assistant CP and someone else basically up there with us on the phone talking to DL SOC in Atlanta during the whole process. We sent off our RWY Request and TO-FOB as soon as we got our ATIS and knew what our planned Fuel was. About 10 mins later the bags were all loaded. Ramper came up with the CLR, and about 10 seconds later we go the Cargo Load MSG on ACARS and the Loadsheet populated with the correct bag count. When the flight was closed the total SOBs matched the FA count and it even autopopulated the Jumps-eater we had sitting up front with us. The one thing it did mess up was that even with the total number of PAX being correct, the sections were off by a few numbers due to upgrades that occurred during the boarding process. So that became a manual change we did and sent off. Other than that it worked pretty well, it was explained to me that the new software runs some crazy algorithm where it calculates the odds of a PAX moving seats/sections and takes that into consideration for WB/CG. Anyway it looks pretty slick but expect a lot of checklist changes down the pipe to accommodate all this.