JET BLUE Weight and Balance

[ASABound]

Are you folks still using the laptops or have you guys transitioned to a ACARS weight and balance tool ?

 

[Fins Up]

Are you folks still using the laptops or have you guys transitioned to a ACARS weight and balance tool ?

Still using laptops. I like being able to do it myself. Periodically we taxi around other airlines who are "waiting on the numbers".

 

[ASABound]

i hear ya, just curious. Thanks !!

 

[paluch]

We recently switched to slide rulers

 

[Hair-on-Fire]

Airbus does our W/B. We don't have to start paying for that until 2020.

 

[BeachBummer]

I like to use the E6B, laptops are slow.

 

[CA1900]

Airbus does our W/B. We don't have to start paying for that until 2020.

:laugh:

 

[najet]

ACARS is much more foolproof.....

 

[BeachBummer]

ACARS is much more foolproof.....

Couldn't do it on the E90 anyhow... MEL list often too long, we'd either never recieve it or it would run out of paper before the preflight was over.

 

[Fins Up]

I heard if we vote in a union the company will switch us to an abacus.

 

[AKAAB]

I heard if we vote in a union the company will switch us to an abacus.

More like an AAbacus.

 

[Headfake14]

Are you folks still using the laptops or have you guys transitioned to a ACARS weight and balance tool ?

I hope we NEVER go to an ACARS based system for that. Takes me less than 30 seconds to re-do numbers for different runways, intersections..ect. We can manipulate everything...thrust, flaps, bleeds, APU and a few others...and no paper needed.

ACARS gets MEL'd sometimes...that'd suck with the other system. Not sure how you get around that one for those guys.

 

[n757st]

Just curious, how does this system work? Do you pass out a paper copy of a wieght and balance on a worksheet, or do you have some kind of cellular / wifi etc data connection from the laptop that sends the info to the company?

 

[Blue Dude]

We send the results for posterity via ACARS, or paper as a backup, but we don't have to wait for some other number cruncher's W&B data from ACARS. We can calculate all the data on our own.

 

[n757st]

We send the results for posterity via ACARS, or paper as a backup, but we don't have to wait for some other number cruncher's W&B data from ACARS. We can calculate all the data on our own.

Good deal, thanks for the info.