FutureBoy
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- Reginald
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So if I hear you correctly, if I want to loose weight, there are 2 ways to go about it. 1: just get off my butt and loose some weight, 2: get everyone else to lose weight so that the average numbers come down. Hmmm... Which will be harder, motivating myself, or myself motivating a ton of others.As for our weight, we all weigh the same. And so does the rest of the public! I know Japan Air and I think Korean air have a BMI limitation. But only the military cares past that. The reason we all weigh the same is, "Average passenger weights" are used on larger aircraft. There are accepted and measured "average weights" that are used for weight calculations. (As well as average luggage weights, which is why they penalize you for going over 50 lbs) Taking into account kids, skinny people, average people, and larger than average people, an average per passenger is taken. So all you do is multiply the number of pax by the avg and you get you pax weights. There are summer weights, and winter weights, with winter being just a touch more. Same goes for the flight crew. Our average weight is part of the BOW, or Basic Operating Weight, which contains a fully crewed and stocked airplane. So we can weigh whatever. Now, if you've eaten airline food, and you realize they are actually trying to impress you, and then think they don't care about impressing the crew, but rather limiting the expenses, you can imagine how bad that tastes. So for most it's hard to gain while eating crew meals. When I'm doing flight testing of any kind, we bring our own. That can get dangerous! We often get a catering company or local restaurant to set us up. And some of those meals are anything but "light and low fat".
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