Airlines will add birth date, gender to ticketing information

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10-28-2008, 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Toejam

If we start asking about the passenger's weight, why don't we start giving the passengers the visibility into the pilot's capabilities. We could provide to the passengers a score from 1 to 100 on how competent the pilot was on their last checkride. I know I would like to know how much the person I was trusting with my life knew about flying. I would actually like to know that more than how much the person next to me weighed.

Hmmmm. Yeah...let's put everyone on a scale!

I never once said ask the passengers for their weight. I said, as they are processed, they are weighed and then added to the total zero fuel weight.

The situation I referred to was for the military. And in trying to get someone a free ride to wherever, or trying to maximize the cargo, I sometimes asked for the passenger's weight. The standard numbers didn't work in our case. And almost everytime I flew to Kadena AB, their ATOC (the pax and cargo people), had us overweight.

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10-29-2008, 06:39 AM

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"Cessna 123 HEAVY, checking in 3500'..."
"That was Cessna 123 HEAVY?"
"Ya, I got my fat @$$ wife with me today"
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"She isn't wearing a headset"

11-01-2008, 11:46 AM

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Wasn't this on Boston Legal a season or so ago?

11-03-2008, 03:26 AM

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I can see it now...

Non rev pilot @ gate: "So, are we full today?"

Gate agent: "it's wide open"

Non rev: "any good seats today?"

Gate agent: "well there is a 116# 23yo female in 22d, a 122# 34 year old in 12c and a 115# 22yo female in 7f but she is carrying a lapchild so you may not be interested"

Non rev: "ill take 22c please"

11-03-2008, 04:56 AM

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Fatty...

just wondering WHERE you flew a Beech 1900 for the military since later in this thread you said it was a military situation.....

11-03-2008, 11:48 AM

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Osan Air Force Base

Beech1900 = C-12J

11-03-2008, 11:58 AM

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Well, I don't care if the captain himself starts to pull my fingernails out. I am NOT telling you my weight!

11-04-2008, 12:04 AM

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Thanks Fatty.

11-04-2008, 04:33 AM

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The USAF had 2 in Korea, 1 in Alaska (along with other C-12s), and 1 at Edwards. About two years ago, they moved the C-12s from Osan to Yokota. I think they then got rid of the C-21 units there at Yokota ... but
I'm not sure about that.

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