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Airlines Can't Charge You for What You Wear

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Re: Airlines Can't Charge You for What You Wear

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Post by lispisok »

marcta wrote: post #3

There is a reason that luggage has to be weighed. If you watch Mentour Pilot, there's a not insignificant number of plane accidents (and outright disasters) that occur due to the plane weight being calculated incorrectly, and thereby running out of fuel. https://www.evionica.com/blog/blog/how-much-the-passenger-we...

Cant recall ever being weighed as a passenger and in this day and age you have passengers who are 120 lbs and 300 lbs yet you get penalized if your suitcase is 1 lbs over the limit.

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Post by bushwart »

Looks great for summer. The many pockets seem especially practical for organizing wads of travel cash and supplements like creatine, protein powder, magnesium capsules, etc. They should consider producing a niqab version for Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia.

Re: Airlines Can't Charge You for What You Wear

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Post by netsharc »

TomatoCo wrote: post #7
Qem wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Next would be taxing airways and using the resources to subsidize the costs of GLP class drugs, as they benefit directly from customer weight loss.

Vaguely reminds me of that planet in Hitchhiker's Guide that started to lose too much mass to tourists leaving. So, > Thus today the net balance between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete while on the planet is surgically removed from your body weight when you leave; so every time you go to the lavatory there, it is vitally important to get a receipt.

Meanwhile Dubai exports its shit: https://medium.com/@sohaibwaheed06/explaining-dubais-poop-pr...

I looked up videos on YouTube about this topic, but the few that I clicked were AI slop with the prompt of something like "Generate a video from the contents of this article, use clip art videos and English male narration".

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Post by wavemode »

marcta wrote: post #3

There is a reason that luggage has to be weighed. If you watch Mentour Pilot, there's a not insignificant number of plane accidents (and outright disasters) that occur due to the plane weight being calculated incorrectly, and thereby running out of fuel. https://www.evionica.com/blog/blog/how-much-the-passenger-we...

Carry-on luggage is usually not weighed, there are simply safety margins in place for that sort of thing. (A human probably isn't capable of carrying a bag heavy enough to erode those margins.)

And fuel burn is the least of the concerns when it comes to weight - a far bigger issue is how it affects balance and engine lift. But on a plane the size of a jet airliner, this too is almost never a real concern when it comes to passenger weight - a standard weight is just assumed for each passenger and their carryon. (It's a concern for cargo weight, but that's why cargo is always weighed and balanced properly.)

Maybe if the airline notices that all the passengers are sitting on the left (for some strange reason) or something like that, they would reseat people.

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Post by ooterness »

rationalist wrote: post #6
marcta wrote: post #3

There is a reason that luggage has to be weighed. If you watch Mentour Pilot, there's a not insignificant number of plane accidents (and outright disasters) that occur due to the plane weight being calculated incorrectly, and thereby running out of fuel. https://www.evionica.com/blog/blog/how-much-the-passenger-we...

Wouldn't it be possible to install strain gauges in the landing gears to determine the plane's weight?

Systems built into the landing gear do exist, but they're not very common. There are also ground-based systems (i.e., scale-on-a-cart for each wheel).

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/16307/how-does-...

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Post by OutOfHere »

bushwart wrote: post #12

Looks great for summer. The many pockets seem especially practical for organizing wads of travel cash and supplements like creatine, protein powder, magnesium capsules, etc. They should consider producing a niqab version for Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia.

I strongly advise keeping all supplements in a checked bag, with good written labels about what they are. I keep them in ziploc bags with very clear labels. For mixed stacks, write DAILY VITAMINS, DAILY PROTEIN, etc.

If you carry them with you while going through security, you're just asking to be strip searched and questioned.

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Post by rationalist »

bushwart wrote: post #12

Looks great for summer. The many pockets seem especially practical for organizing wads of travel cash and supplements like creatine, protein powder, magnesium capsules, etc. They should consider producing a niqab version for Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia.

> wads of travel cash

Be very careful about this. It is a good way to get your money "stolen" through Civil Asset Forfeiture:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...

> A 2020 study found that the median cash forfeiture in 21 states which track such data was $1,300

It doesn't have to be a lot of cash, and in fact smaller amounts are more likely to be taken so that there is less of a fight to try to get it back.

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Post by tadfisher »

rationalist wrote: post #6
marcta wrote: post #3

There is a reason that luggage has to be weighed. If you watch Mentour Pilot, there's a not insignificant number of plane accidents (and outright disasters) that occur due to the plane weight being calculated incorrectly, and thereby running out of fuel. https://www.evionica.com/blog/blog/how-much-the-passenger-we...

Wouldn't it be possible to install strain gauges in the landing gears to determine the plane's weight?

They would have to be calibrated and cross-checked with the manifest weight

Re: Airlines Can't Charge You for What You Wear

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Post by Markoff »

lispisok wrote: post #11
marcta wrote: post #3

There is a reason that luggage has to be weighed. If you watch Mentour Pilot, there's a not insignificant number of plane accidents (and outright disasters) that occur due to the plane weight being calculated incorrectly, and thereby running out of fuel. https://www.evionica.com/blog/blog/how-much-the-passenger-we...

Cant recall ever being weighed as a passenger and in this day and age you have passengers who are 120 lbs and 300 lbs yet you get penalized if your suitcase is 1 lbs over the limit.

I believe this is more of a thing for fully loaded private jets.

related: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RkP4TJ5jj94

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wa76cbc7dzQ

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