"Attention please. Would the defensive linemen
please move to the front of the cabin?"
Posted on 01/10/2017 4:48:18 PM PST by Gamecock
The headline makes it sound like he was the bad guy, and by the end of the story I was on his side.
Ah, the joys of flying.
Weight distribution? What size plane was this?
Asking people to move, in order to balance the aircraft?
What a bunch of —— ——.
The crew knows the weight and balance of the aircraft before push back.
Unless this was a puddle jumper, I’m wondering if there wasn’t something else going on, a passenger demanding a certain seating arrangement and the weight thing was an excuse.
Cleared that up right away in the second sentence.
If they have to move passengers around to balance the plane, I’m going to get off and take another flight...
If that’s the case, who on that flight had more juice than Sen. Pothole...?
I take it you don’t fly very often or know nothing about aerodynamics
No I don’t, and this is precisely why.
I will not put up with delays and unconstitutional searches.
I don’t fly; won’t put up with the nonsense.
Then you’re missing out. It’s a great big beautiful world out there, and I’m enjoying seeing it
People want to be treated well on airlines but insist on paying rates more appropriate for cargo then try to skirt the rules by testing the limits for baggage weight and size then being difficult to the flight staff.
Airlines respond by cutting closer to the margins on weight and schedule, and occasionally things go @ss over teaketttle and a tired flight crew has a half hour to get a nearly overloaded airliner into the air before FAA regs say they have to deplane and switch out, further delaying the flight. Plug in one retire important person who isn’t ready to sit down and color and you get something that looks like this.
No snowflake in the avalanche thinks itself responsible.
Dunno, the other thread has more detail on the balance thing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3512687/posts?page=1#1
I've traveled quite a bit in my career and been on quite a few airplanes. I've NEVER run into a situation where passengers are asked to switch seats to adjust a planes weight distribution.
If that were to EVER happen on a plane I was on, I'd insist on getting the hell off that plane pronto. WTF!!!
Guilty of being a Republican and being old. Two things Liberals HATE.
Die already, or CONVERT!
Wow. Liberals are kinda like Islamo-facists in that respect, are they not?
*SMIRK*
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