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Jay Maynard wrote:
On 2008-03-28, Jim Logajan wrote: The poster said these were ATC transmissions, not internal company communications. Since ATC doesn't concern itself with weight, balance, or any other flight performance factors, your explanation is almost certainly wrong. You haven't had an airline flight pause on the taxiway waiting for this information? I have, as recently as last week. ATC would indeed care if the aircraft wasn't ready to go yet because it couldn't legally depart. While you may be right, I'm having a difficult time understanding why ATC would concern itself with something unrelated to traffic control - unless the PIC first brought it up. In any case, I thought weight, balance, and such "numbers" were strictly a PIC responsibility. For them to ask if the crew had "their numbers" yet (note, not "the numbers") would make sense if, for example, they were going to hold off obtaining IFR release from Departure until the flight was ready, and the crew had advised them they weren't because they hadn't gotten that information. Okay - it would make more sense (to me, anyway) only if it was the pilot who first brought up not having their "numbers" as the reason they might not be as ready as they claimed. I also assumed the more well known meaning of "have numbers" was involved here. |
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