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Bombadilillo posted:If you think bag weights are for safety. Wow. They'd weigh people too if they could get away with it and it would't be for safety. edit: top of page so here's a picture 
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Bombadilillo posted:If you think bag weights are for safety. Wow. They do definately do stability calculations based on your and your carry on bags estimated weight and those calculations do matter during take off and landing for your safety. They are also definately scamming you on bag fees.
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Mar 18, 2019 20:04
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They actually do report # of heavy bags vs. regular weight bags, and the captains enter that information into the flight computer before taxi. They enter how many are in each compartment under the passengers. It's for weight/balance calculations to figure out take off speed, etc. That being said, this guy (or even 10 people doing this on a single flight) will not make a difference with their weak feet skimming off a few pounds.
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Mar 18, 2019 20:06
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BrandorKP posted:They do definately do stability calculations based on your and your carry on bags estimated weight and those calculations do matter during take off and landing for your safety. If they cared about passenger weight, they would ask you your weight when you book and seat you accordingly, not let you choose your own seat.
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Mar 18, 2019 20:16
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Tiny Lowtax posted:If they cared about passenger weight, they would ask you your weight when you book and seat you accordingly, not let you choose your own seat. First you can use an average passenger weight. It also matters more on an empty plane. They'll even force seat changes for stability reasons, on an nearly empty plane. And some of the algorithms that show this or that seat is available account for stability too. And different planes have different initial stability characteristics based on thier design, so it matters more for some planes, some are inherently less stabile. My personal expertise is vessel stability, but the plane stuff is built on the vessel concepts.
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Mar 18, 2019 20:22
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Bombadilillo posted:If you think bag weights are for safety. Wow. When you pay them $75 they then go put that in extra fuel in the plane to cover the weight of your bag of rocks and sand.
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Mar 18, 2019 20:27
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Plus lord help you if you're on a MD-80 / derivative with 2-3 seating and baggage biased across from the passengers, and it's a bunch of skinny people who packed heavy or v/v
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Mar 18, 2019 20:33
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Get at me when you're all under 300lbs or are being rightfully weighed and charged every time you get on a plane, till then suitcase cheat guy is ok by me.
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Mar 18, 2019 20:35
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Data Graham posted:like a fuckin USR Courier handshaking at 33.6 up in there I have to say, you paint a vivid goddamn picture.
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Mar 18, 2019 20:56
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The bag weight limit is 50 pounds because of health and safety of the bag loaders on the tarmac. If you have a heavier bag they punish you with a fee so next time you hopefully won't do it. Also the photo was originally censored with emojis and someone blurred those out too?
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Data Graham posted:Also that one time you kept your phone active and didn’t switch into airplane mode so you could finish texting while the plane taxied on its takeoff roll, you should have heard what it sounded like in the ATC’s ears, it was like a fuckin USR Courier handshaking at 33.6 up in there I never considered that but it makes so much more sense than "your phone can make the plane fall out of the sky". That is, a cellphone causing communications interference.
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Mar 18, 2019 21:03
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I hear they've started forcing everybody to drink all their taxfree liquor before boarding so they don't bring any flammables or blunt/breakable/stabbing weapons onboard. Plus Delta has started liposucking anyone found loitering outside the business class platinum lounge. E: sorry that's incorrect that's lipsucking, and inside.
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Mar 18, 2019 21:10
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Gynocentric Regime posted:Yeah it's funny until you kill a bunch of people So charging extra magically makes the bag safe and weigh less? BiggerBoat has a new favorite as of 00:52 on Mar 19, 2019 |
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Mar 18, 2019 22:31
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We're just allowing pictures of death in the funny pictures thread?? Mods??
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Mar 18, 2019 22:37
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I can tell that most of you haven't been to rural communities cause when you fly to northern Ontario in an oversized pringles can they definitely do weigh each of the 8-16 passengers and arrange them accordingly
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Mar 18, 2019 23:11
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Mar 18, 2019 23:17
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Anyone have the “comic” of the guy shutting/pissing in the floor/ceiling o fthebbathrrom? I’m failing at googling it
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Mar 18, 2019 23:26
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xtal posted:I can tell that most of you haven't been to rural communities cause when you fly to northern Ontario in an oversized pringles can they definitely do weigh each of the 8-16 passengers and arrange them accordingly Bay Area plane nerds do the "$100 steak", which is to load up your friends into a Cessna (172 because you haven't got your high-performance endorsement) and fly to Harris Ranch in Coalinga, which has a little airstrip right next to I-5. Park the plane, eat a mountain of beef in the middle of a reeking stockyard, then get back in the plane and for a few minutes wonder whether you've eaten so much that you've hosed your weight calculations such that now you won't be able to take off
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Mr. Nemo posted:Anyone have the “comic” of the guy shutting/pissing in the floor/ceiling o fthebbathrrom? I’m failing at googling it https://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php?act=3&topicid=2105 Telhix? Sorry, just realized the non-broken link there is to an edited version.  2nd try: 
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Data Graham posted:Also that one time you kept your phone active and didn’t switch into airplane mode so you could finish texting while the plane taxied on its takeoff roll, you should have heard what it sounded like in the ATC’s ears, it was like a fuckin USR Courier handshaking at 33.6 up in there Every time I hear ATC audio I'm consistently surprised at how poor the audio quality actually is. Seems like they should be able to work out a very clear digital solution, but I'm guessing that runs in to many reliability/range/nobody wants to spend money on ATC problems?
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Mar 18, 2019 23:58
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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PittTheElder posted:Every time I hear ATC audio I'm consistently surprised at how poor the audio quality actually is. Seems like they should be able to work out a very clear digital solution, but I'm guessing that runs in to many reliability/range/nobody wants to spend money on ATC problems? yeah, why can’t they just fire up a big discord server and call it a day, seems easy! 
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Sounds like a waste of money, didn't you see that video about how turtles like to hump shoes?
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Mar 19, 2019 01:30
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Works great until you don't have to do the thing at that time any more.
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Mar 19, 2019 01:33
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Heroes in the cock swell - turtle penis
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Mar 19, 2019 01:47
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https://twitter.com/vrunt/status/1107780924383653893?s=21
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Amelia Earhart [1937, colourised]
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Mar 19, 2019 02:40
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I was once told my carry on backpack was too heavy on some dodgy flight out of china, I unpacked some stuff from the backpack and left it against a wall then went and checked in then picked up my stuff and proceeded to board.
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Abongination posted:I was once told my carry on backpack was too heavy on some dodgy flight out of china, I unpacked some stuff from the backpack and left it against a wall then went and checked in then picked up my stuff and proceeded to board. Pretty sure you're not allowed to post on SA if you're dead.
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https://twitter.com/DannyDutch/status/1107573070489964544
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https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1107616162089705472
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xtal posted:I can tell that most of you haven't been to rural communities cause when you fly to northern Ontario in an oversized pringles can they definitely do weigh each of the 8-16 passengers and arrange them accordingly I mean I have flown in a fair amount of different kinds of planes, including jumbo 747s, half empty cigar tubes, a sea plane, and little 4 seaters, and a lot in between. I've never been weighed and neither has my carry on luggage. I have seen someone be asked to switch sides one time. I guess I'm glad no one had an extra can of yams in their luggage that day or I'd be dead now
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Mar 19, 2019 04:03
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You figured out the scam, Forum superstar The Bloop. It's impossible for planes to have weight or balance issues from passengers. You figured out the scam with logic and facts because you were never personally in a plane crash.
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Zesty posted:You figured out the scam, Forum superstar The Bloop. It's impossible for planes to have weight or balance issues from passengers. You figured out the scam with logic and facts because you were never personally in a plane crash. It's true that all my anecdotal experience is a blip in the data but isn't it really weird that I was never weighed and neither was my father who flew all over the world for work for decades and also in the service, if it's actually important to do on all flights? Sounds pretty unlikely to me. If you have any actual facts or expertise or a link to a relevant article, I'm all eyes.
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Mar 19, 2019 04:20
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your weight is already measured by your chip implant and submitted wirelessly to the passport every morning so the airlines already know how much fuel to pack for your phat azz
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Mar 19, 2019 05:23
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The Bloop posted:It's true that all my anecdotal experience is a blip in the data but isn't it really weird that I was never weighed and neither was my father who flew all over the world for work for decades and also in the service, if it's actually important to do on all flights? Sounds pretty unlikely to me. Plenty of articles out there https://blog.klm.com/how-do-you-weigh-a-plane-jesseyknows/
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I've only ever been weighed once for a flight and that was out of a bumfuck tiny town in central Queensland where you all stand in a shed waiting for the plane to land and security is the dog running about the plastic tables outside hoping to scrounge a chip.
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