You're not flying on sunday are you SaltPork? I wanna stay away from you when flying.
We're flying to Panama City Florida fom Toronto at 9:15AM.
The last plane I was on had a problem with the load distribution system. After an hour the Captain decided we'd go anyway. It was a Continental flight from Newark to Syracuse on a small Canadair regional jet.
These jets have two seats on the right of the aisle and one on the left. In addition, the cargo is loaded first on the right as the cargo door is on the left. And the overhead bins are on the right. The result is that the plane is right-heavy. (What a dumb design!)
Without the weight distribution system (which manages the fuel load, I guess) , the takeoffs and landings are very rough. The plane wants to drop on the right as soon as it gets airborne and the pilot obviously was fighting it until he was able to trim it. The landing was very rough. I was glad to get home though, as I was coming back from Europe and it had been a long day. We missed the first flight because of delays in customs and immigration and had to wait 2 hours for the next one.