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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Henry Kisor: [QB] The reason small airliner crews move passengers around is not so much to save fuel as it is to enhance safety, to have the greatest weight closest to the center of gravity. (Pilots call this "weight and balance," and they compute it before each flight.) Once at KCWA (Wausau Central Wisconsin) I was a rider in a 12-passenger Swearingen commuter turboprop when the pilot tromped on the left brake, gunned the right engine and rapidly swung the plane around 360 degrees. It startled me -- because I hadn't heard the pilot say he was going to do so to redistribute fuel from one wing tank to the other to achieve better lateral balance. There are pumps for this procedure, but they take a while, and the old barnstormer's trick does it quickly. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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