Standard Pax Weights
The Samoa thread was canned for degenerating into 'fluff'.
HOWEVER, the 77 kg adult standard weight allowed by the rules is well overdue for review. After WW II, 77kg was probably about what people did weigh averaged across the two sexes, but that was nearly 70 years ago. Setting the problems of obesity aside, it does seem that with better diet, people are getting bigger. Plenty of 16 year old males would probably be approaching 77 kg and not considered obese. What does the average Australian adult now weigh? Last time I was forced by CASA requirement to do a survey for an RPT jet operation, males came out at 89 kg and females at 74 kg, and these people were not young, therefore generally not as big as following generations. In fact the demographic was what could be described as grey nomads. With cabin baggage the average was very close to 100 kg per male and 85 kg per female, and from memory those were the numbers we adopted, causing the financial and marketing people to have conniptions. Because of course they had done their payload promises on 77 kg, including cabin baggage.
No matter what size aircraft, the potential for tears is there if we continue with the 77 kg standard.
Last edited by Mach E Avelli; 5th Apr 2013 at 10:53.
Reason: grammar: potential' is' not 'are'