Emily wrote:
Has anyone considered this? A too-high estimate could affect flight
characteristics and might also waste fuel (since more would be loaded
than needed).


Personally, I don't care about weight and balance. I care that I can't
take my contacts out on a transatlantic flight and that the TSA would be
shuffling through company secret information if I were to check it on a
business trip.

Weight and balance was not important to the commuter plane that
crashed in the southeast a few years ago either. Add the reported
control system problem and multiple people died.

Ron Lee