Simbrief Custom Universal Weight Settings

SimBrief Feature Requests
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Hello all,

I have been struggling to plan my flights lately due to the way Simbrief calculates payloads by default. From what I understand, Simbrief automatically assumes every passenger weighs 175lbs, and assumes every passenger carries 55lbs of cargo with them, for a total of 230lbs per passenger.

As someone who works in the airline industry, I can immediately point out a couple of things wrong with this, such as the fact that only about half of passengers (from what I have seen at least) carry 55lbs of baggage with them. In fact, a large portion of passengers only bring carry-ons weighing at most 20lbs.

I would like to enter custom average passenger and freight weights so that Simbrief does not overload my plane, but currently in order to do that I need to make a custom airframe for every aircraft in my hangar, and then spend the extra time to find the custom airframes when I am making a flight. I would like to have an option to override the Simbrief default average weights so that I can use the default profiles while also not having Simbrief think all 50 passengers on my 30-minute flight are bringing their entire house with them.

On that note, thanks for supporting such a useful program for the sim community.

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you can edit the weights in the aircraft profiles, FAA current weights are winter weights 210 for adults 32 lbs for avg bag, right now i wish there was children weights.

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The thing is afaik you have to make a custom aircraft profile every time you need to edit the weights, and then you have to go and find that profile every time you want to plan a flight. It would remove a massive headache if we could modify the global defaults.

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