Originally Posted by
YorkshireTyke
All a load of Boll***s anyway, every flight takes off heavy than the accepted loadsheet, no point weighing passengers without weighing their handbaggage stuffed into the overhead locker, or the various amounts of Duty Free liquor that many carry. Not many 93 Kg men in some countries ( no names, no pack drill)
You were happy to use the phrase - so I will too.
All a load of Boll***s
My previous company, a large household name loco did a comprehensive trial a few years back in which incoming and outgoing aircraft were briefly stopped on pressure pads placed just off the parking stand for weighing to ascertain acuracy of the assumed weights and fuel uplifts/burns etc.
Accuracy of the pads was something like +/- 20Kg on 60Tons.
Accuracy of the assumed weights proved astonishingly good, the results produced a bell-curve of course but none were anywhere close to causing concern for accuracy on any criteria, performance, limitatins etc. I forget the numbers but istr the average error was in the order of a couple of hundred Kg. Infinitessimal on a 60T aeroplane. In any case it was well inside the accuracy of the fuel gauges.
So I call Bolls to your claim, sir!