I don't mind the birthdate, but they better not be asking about my weight!

I wish the airlines did ask for people's weight. Recently I've flown some flights where the CG and zero fuel weight listed on the weight and balance sheet had to be way off.

They should have a floor scale at the gate. When you check your ticket to the gate agent, you walk across it and it records your weight, including your bags.

When I flew the Beech 1900, I asked people's weight religiously and if I thought they weren't telling the truth, I made them step on a bathroom scale. I don't want to further a stereotype, but the ladies ALWAYS grossly understated their weight.

-Fatty

And once again... your taxed dollars hard at work.

what happens if the person is a she-male? The TSA are going to have a field day with this one.

Oh please, what Scale? You carry one around in your flight kit?

PilotFrog, you never used the scales? After the little korean and I "lifted the nose gear off the Kadena ramp" one day, I started using those scales.

-Fatty

A pretty common sentiment.



Now THAT must have been fun to watch ... I can hear it now:

"Welcome aboard, ma'am. Can I ask you how much you weigh? It's to calculate the aircraft weight."

"Errrr, 125 pounds."

"Okay, ma'am. Hmmmm, would you step over here on this scale, please?"

<<Sound of high-velocity hard-sided purse fracturing a pilot's skull>>

"STEP ON THIS, A*****E!"


I wouldn't do that without a kevlar helmet, bullet-proof vest, and a catcher's cup!

Haha. I used to worry when I saw all the strut showing. Then I saw a plane balancing on the mains. I realized I wasn't maximizing my payload if it wasn't .

However, I found when we do charters and use actual passenger weights, you come in well under the average weights we use for revenue. Including adding the "liars buffer".

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!

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