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We bug a diffeent approach speed for each weight.

How are the weights delivered up to you guys in the control room? And
the weight's distribution?



It seems like the handlers just jam whatever they've got on the cart
in the hole.

Is the stuff weighed and put onto the carts in a certain way and then
loaded according to some train-oriented protocol?

I just knock off a few knots if I'm
light, basically.

Bertie

And you know you're light because you have the fuel left, the "empty
weight", and the number of bodies plus estimate (or weighed) total
baggage?

Ah that last bit I was talking about when I fly a light plane.

We get a load sheet with the various weights on it ( zero fuel, empty,
TOW, etc) and a balance position based on MAC. It's not all that much
different than you'd do it in a 172, really. We get a trim position
translated from the MAC, though and we just set that number on the trim
indicator. We go into tables for a specific runway with weight info and
get a V1 Vr and V2 from that as well as a thrust reduction if we're
light enough to use one.
The airplane is compartmentalised for load sheet purposes and we could
do it by hand if we had to but it's all computerised. Even if we were in
the wilderness with nobody to hamdle us we can get one over the ACARS
thing we have in the cockpit ( sort of like phone texting)

Bertie