Hmmm
Well let's try some more and see where it goes.
Juan Tugoh - Thanks for the explanation on trim, the process of which I understand at a basic level. I had simplified my explanation somewhat, since not everybody is familiar with the concepts discussed (or is interested). The fact remains that once the aircraft is airborne it is in trim assuming no sudden mass movement of payload and it continues to trim itself as the payload wanders around the aircraft looking for another cocktail or a pee. If you were to load a modern aircraft in the manner you describe, its' performance once airborne would be somewhat academic, since it would never become so.
Geoff44 - Possibly, but beyond your own experience of trimming an aircraft, you don't know that for fact, and should possibly be more careful when presenting an educated guess as such. Had you, in fact, been responsible for producing the loadsheet for that aircraft, how would you have felt, on producing a solution to bring the aircraft back in trim (i.e. moving some mass from one area to another), only to be told that the mass involved didn't feel like moving? I suspect that your reaction might be rather closer to mine under those circumstances?
FYI - 737-800 are especially prone to trim issues (long, thin) when loads are low. This can be exacerbated by the hold loading procedures adopted by LoCo fast t/round carriers.
pd2 - None of what you say is 'wrong' however in my view, it is a distraction. You'll be able to discuss w/b issues in one of the various tech forums on PPRuNe, where some of the answers that you receive may surprise you slightly. However, since this was raised in the Cabin Crew forum, we should discuss it from a CC point of view. From a CC perspective, it is a concern that given your experience as ATPL and Captain, you should feel comfortable with your actions in this particular instance. I regard it as inappropriate that you should have acted upon a request from an FA as if you were a part of the operating crew, when in fact your role was quite different. I don't believe that you would be happy for pax on a flight of which you were the Commander to disregard an instruction from your crew acting with your delegated authority, citing prior knowledge of the theory of flight: Had you been asked to leave the flight deck to explain your reasoning to a reluctant to a move customer, you might well find that some shortness in your tone and language developed. It is unclear from your posts whether you were travelling on an industry ticket or a commercial basis.
There is clearly a possibility that the CC in this instance was playing games to make service or other issues easier: I hope not, because that kind of behaviour discredits us all, and, as demonstrated by the existence of this thread, makes it more difficult for the rest of us to do our jobs as required, in the future, when necessary. The point is that none of us know for sure if this was the case, and for the purposes of discussion, we should treat it as being a serious request.
Diplome - Quite so!