Passenger weight aircraft profile vs OFP

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I’ve been preparing for the upcoming CTP and have analysed 10 flights to calculate contingency fuel etc. and I’ve noticed something odd.

In my aircraft profile (B77W, PMDG) the passenger weight is set at 86kg. However, if I look at the passenger weight in the Air France OFP and the number of passengers reported by SimBrief, the passenger weight appears to be 79.194kg (174.5lbs).

The payload etc. in the flight calculation is set to AUTO, the passenger number as well. Am I missing something or is the passenger weight hard coded into the PMDG B77W profile or something?

See the table below: dividing the weight by 79.194kg gives no remainder, whereas there’s a significant remainder if I divide by 86kg.

Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 E F G H I J K L
PAX WEIGHT 28035 29936 26847 27481 30174 24234 24947 30174 30174 25897 26372
PAX (SimBrief) 354 378 339 347 381 306 315 381 381 327 333
PAX (@86kg) 325.988 348.093 312.174 319.547 350.860 281.791 290.081 350.860 350.860 301.128 306.651
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Looks like a bug affecting the AFR 2017 layout specifically, the passenger weight must be hardcoded to 175 lbs somewhere in its code.

Regards,

Tim

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I have my weights via FAA 203 and 32 to 55 lbs on bags and heavy bags… the biggest gripe for me is that children weights matter for payload, not only that a lot more. Depending on the flight route there are baggage standard not 1 pax = 1 bag. This is the standard for simbrief. Very unrealistic

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Hi, the inconsistent payload values should be fixed in the AFR and KLM layouts now.

Best regards,

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