Originally Posted by Long Haul;[url=tel:3508972
3508972]No, that was a legit question. I’ve been out of the country for awhile, and while I would certainly wait for takeoff if an inspector of our local authority was on board, during normal ops at my airline no one is checking every flight to see how much fuel we burned before takeoff. The difference between max ramp wt and max TO weight for the triple that I fly is about 2,000 lbs, so even if you burn off NO taxi fuel you are still no more than 0.002% over max TOW, when in reality you have no idea what the exact take off weight is when you use standardized passenger weights. Safety-wise give me the extra fuel, I’m not worried about the weight.
If you try and pull take off data over MGTOW it’ll kick back an error, thus you would have to take off with invalid data.
The ACARS and FOQA data is sent back every few seconds. Even if you were stupid enough to violate a published limit, the whole world is going to know. If you don’t know the exact weight of your airplane, or the excuse is “well standard pax weights aren’t accurate”… good luck keeping your ticket. You fly for Aerosucre or some other shady outfit?
To answer the OPs question, our Pacific flying has been slammed full of cargo. Yes we are weight restricting non revs for cargo. We had less than 500 lbs for SA’s on one of my recent flights.