Originally Posted by
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Reading Reddogs informative post brings up a question for fnwa pilots, what do you guys think of going back to where you get your numbers on the fly?
I have 2 reservations about it, I had an airplane overloaded once with bags from a cxld flight in DTW, it took forever to get the numbers and find out we needed to off load bags. That wouldve been an embarrassing PA to make after push back "sorry folks, we just figured out we're overweight..." the other was a LCC 320 that taxied out and was #1 on 27R in ATL and tower cleared them for TO and they had to tell tower unable, no numbers. Tower then cleared them down to 27R and to the back of the line.
Just wondering, how was it for you guys? And I hope when we do this they have a system where they gate hold flights that probably will have issues.
To dove tail this, I have had them load the loading plan backwards and have to take the forward bins and move them to the back and the back to the front. It is very rare.
There seems to be talk of pushing without AWABS, and that is fine. I still think that the ramp personnel should have to input the data prior to push. The system will not accept numbers if they are in an overweight. or imbalance situation from what I am told.