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AFV1139 Captain, B737-800 Joined on December 14 2020 GVA 1 Year Anniversary Scotland United Kingdom 88 legs, 153.5 hours 86 legs, 150.1 hours ACARS	Posted onPost created on December 28 2020 17:02 ET by Ian Roxburgh
	Hi I am very new to AFVA and although I have flown a number of flights, I am still finding my way. I have a question relating to passengers. My records show that on six flights I have only carried 6 passengers in total!! In fact I have been carrying an average of 155 pax per flight. How do I record pax numbers? I can't see how to do this on ACARS. Indeed the "load fuel and passengers" dropdown is greyed out.
AFV1036 Senior Captain, A350-900 Joined on October 13 2017 GVA 1 Year Anniversary 50 State Club Under African Skies Globetrotter Extraordinaire Millenium Club Baby Bus Two Fifty Club Skyteam Supremacist Södermanlands län Sweden 1,150 legs, 1,763.3 hours 14 legs, 21.5 hours online 1,096 legs, 1,659.3 hours ACARS	Posted onPost created on December 28 2020 17:06 ET by Fredrik Martensson
	Hi Ian, well are you using ACARS to manage fuel/pax/payload ? If so i recommend you to use SimBrief instead, it calculates all weights for you, and you can either set it to "Auto" or manually type in PAX. /Fred
AFV1036 Senior Captain, A350-900 Joined on October 13 2017 GVA 1 Year Anniversary 50 State Club Under African Skies Globetrotter Extraordinaire Millenium Club Baby Bus Two Fifty Club Skyteam Supremacist Södermanlands län Sweden 1,150 legs, 1,763.3 hours 14 legs, 21.5 hours online 1,096 legs, 1,659.3 hours ACARS	Posted onPost created on December 28 2020 17:09 ET by Fredrik Martensson
	I see in your'e flight KL1277 you had 12,542 kg passengers, so roughly if the weight in general is 70kg you had about 180 passengers.
AFV1036 Senior Captain, A350-900 Joined on October 13 2017 GVA 1 Year Anniversary 50 State Club Under African Skies Globetrotter Extraordinaire Millenium Club Baby Bus Two Fifty Club Skyteam Supremacist Södermanlands län Sweden 1,150 legs, 1,763.3 hours 14 legs, 21.5 hours online 1,096 legs, 1,659.3 hours ACARS	Posted onPost created on December 28 2020 17:12 ET by Fredrik Martensson
	Acars says "1" passenger, but i never use acars for more than log my flights, no fuel/passenger or payload. When it pops up, just press no and start flight. You enter everything else in MCDU/FMC and use the built-in fuel in the sim instead "before" you starts ACARS, otherwise you got "in-flight refeuling".
AFV1139 Captain, B737-800 Joined on December 14 2020 GVA 1 Year Anniversary Scotland United Kingdom 88 legs, 153.5 hours 86 legs, 150.1 hours ACARS	Posted onPost created on December 28 2020 18:20 ET by Ian Roxburgh
	Thanks for your help Fred. I am quite happy to to continue to use ACARS to log my flight and to load passengers and fuel manually in the aircraft FMC. I just wondered if there would be any problems with my logbook showing only 1 passenger per flight.....but the the passenger weight would indicate differently?

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