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Post by TKennedy on May 30, 2023 15:12:02 GMT -5
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Post by jdd2 on May 30, 2023 16:23:35 GMT -5
Measure width, too?
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Post by TKennedy on May 30, 2023 17:03:48 GMT -5
I’d vote for dimensional weight. |
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Post by Village Idiot on May 30, 2023 18:04:08 GMT -5
Terry, are you talking about displacing passengers in water to find their volume?
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Post by howard lee on May 30, 2023 18:17:54 GMT -5
Send me a postcard from Auckland.
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Post by TKennedy on May 30, 2023 20:31:25 GMT -5
Terry, are you talking about displacing passengers in water to find their volume? Not a bad idea, you could divide weight by volume and charge by kg/liters. The passenger would have to be fully submerged to calculate volume. Probably best done at an off site facility and your weight/volume index would be part of your check in ID card. |
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Post by Marshall on May 30, 2023 20:38:12 GMT -5
The weight thing doesn't bother me. After all a plane NEEDS to know what load it's carrying. Though this could lead to a price-per-pound kind of reckoning. And I don't think that would ever fly.
I'm surprised. There should be load sensors on the landing gear that would indicate the total weigh of the plane on the ground. That would seem important. Maybe there are and we just don't hear about it.
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Post by John B on May 30, 2023 21:32:35 GMT -5
The weight thing doesn't bother me. After all a plane NEEDS to know what load it's carrying. Though this could lead to a price-per-pound kind of reckoning. And I don't think that would ever fly. I'm surprised. There should be load sensors on the landing gear that would indicate the total weigh of the plane on the ground. That would seem important. Maybe there are and we just don't hear about it. So what you're saying is, "That would never fly." |
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Post by billhammond on May 30, 2023 21:58:24 GMT -5
Probably my best ski day ever was a heli trip out of the Panorama resort in British Columbia. We all had to fill out a form that included revealing our weight, although they didn't actually weigh us. I did a Strib story on that trip and in a later phone interview, the owner of the heli operation recalled that the day I flew with them, there was a group of Germans aboard. RK Heliski was accustomed to getting Euro skiers, especially because at the time there was little snow in the Alps. The operator confided in me that with German males, the pilot routinely added 20 pounds to what each had put on his card, because they were well-fed industrialists and typically fudged the truth.  |
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Post by TKennedy on May 30, 2023 22:04:33 GMT -5
Wow Bill!!
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Post by billhammond on May 30, 2023 22:14:52 GMT -5
It was such an amazing experience. I'll have to dig up that story from our archives and post it here. We were in a Huey, and it was military noisy, but painted pretty. The contrast between all the noise of getting out of the chopper and crouching next to the skids as our skis were unloaded from the side baskets and then the silence as the bird flew away and out of sight down the valley was incredible. We did four ascents that day, each from a different mountain in the Purcells. The first third of each was wide open powder, then a third of sparse trees, and the final third thicker trees, which was hairy for me, but I managed somehow. Slept really, really well that night. |
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Post by xyrn on May 30, 2023 22:49:35 GMT -5
… Slept really, really well that night. I would have slept like crap the night before doing something like that! 😮 |
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Post by Marty on May 30, 2023 23:18:52 GMT -5
I’d vote for dimensional weight. You could get a body scan for dimensions and weight at the same time just like walking through the metal detector. Weight is just so they can keep the plane within load limits but dimension is for passenger comfort. Have slightly wider seats for the dimensionally challenged folks and those get assigned after the scan. That's not to say those folks get huge roomier seats, just not ass squeezers that spill over into their neighbors seat. Everybody deserves the same amount of discomfort in travel class. You want a really roomy seat buy a first class ticket. |
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on May 31, 2023 9:52:56 GMT -5
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