1. Your flying around with 300 POB. Suddenley a pax dies of a heart attack. Are you required to then revise your POB to 299?
2. Enroute over a ocean ETOPS with a full pax load. A woman gives birth prematurly on board. Paxing doctor says the tiny kid is alive and doing well and can easiley withstand the remaining 3 hours to destination. But the additional baby now exceeds the number of child life vests and cots available. Nearest airport is 2 hours from PPOS off track. Continue or divert?
3. Through a series of personal misfortunes a fit and strong pax is on top of the wing of a heavy departing 747. He lies head down and holds on to the vortex generators for dear life during the take-off. V2 is 170kt, enroute climb 320kt to FL310. He will either fall off the wing from increasing airspeed or die from cold and lack of oxygen (and then fall off). Which will occur first?
4. Enroute over the ocean with 6 hours to go. Using only 3 HF calls how do you start World War III?
Excellent! Love your work.
Another good one ...
You're right on maximum ramp weight for departure - should you allow the extra ground crew on board and thus exceed max ramp weight?