More or Less?

MORE or Less?

  • Under weight

    Votes: 17 21.5%

  • Right on target!

    Votes: 18 22.8%

  • 10 pounds over

    Votes: 11 13.9%

  • 20 pounds over

    Votes: 11 13.9%

  • I'm embarrassed!!!

    Votes: 22 27.8%
  • Total voters
    79
  • Poll closed .
Chache

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Here is a good one... since it's New Years and people are making resolutions.....:yes:

The FAA recognizes the average pilot, for weight and balance calculations, as being 170 pounds.

Do you personally weigh more or less?


It's anonymous so feel free to be truthful....
Er.... Not that anyone here would lie...
 
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The poll implies that anything beyond the 20lb+ mark is embarassing. I'm 6'3" and 195 with (at the moment) 17% body fat. That's very low for my age group (35-40) and hardly "embarassing", given my height.
 
Im 6ft 6in, and 220lbs. Obviously I,m over by a bunch. Funny thing is at 170lbs I look a little um, thin.:dunno: I'm far from embarassed.
 
5'7" and 20 pounds under.
 
Brian Austin said:
The poll implies that anything beyond the 20lb+ mark is embarassing. I'm 6'3" and 195 with (at the moment) 17% body fat. That's very low for my age group (35-40) and hardly "embarassing", given my height.
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Agree. 6'0" and 230lbs. If I ever weight 170 I'd look like crap. I could stand to lose some, but I'm happy and not embarrassed. Just fat and happy :D
 
Chache said:
Here is a good one... since it's New Years and people are making resolutions.....:yes:

The FAA recognizes the average pilot, for weight and balance calculations, as being 170 pounds.

Do you personally weigh more or less?


It's anonymous so feel free to be truthful....
Er.... Not that anyone here would lie...
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I certainly would never use an FAA "average" weight of 170 lbs. for W&B calcs. What a useless and dangerous concept in many flight situations.
 
5'11 and currently 168lbs. My weight has been 165-170 for the last 30 years.
 
Dave Krall CFII said:
I certainly would never use an FAA "average" weight of 170 lbs. for W&B calcs. What a useless and dangerous concept in many flight situations.
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Besides the above, I'm a well above average pilot, so average weight has little meaning to me.
Sorry...
 
6' 1" and right on target. My wife doesn't think I look too bad.:goofy:
 
6' 2" and about 215 pounds. Yeah, I do still need to lose some weight, but that's down from this summer. Still, that FAA 170 pound man wasn't 6' 2", either. Otherwise they would never have certified the C-150. :D
 
Brian Austin said:
The poll implies that anything beyond the 20lb+ mark is embarassing. I'm 6'3" and 195 with (at the moment) 17% body fat. That's very low for my age group (35-40) and hardly "embarassing", given my height.
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Sorry Brian,
No implications intended.
I just decided to stop numbering after the 20.

Of course, ..... I could have gone on pound by pound up to 500 pounds, or so... but that would have been ludicrous .:yes: ;)
 
Ghery said:
6' 2" and about 215 pounds. Yeah, I do still need to lose some weight, but that's down from this summer. Still, that FAA 170 pound man wasn't 6' 2", either. Otherwise they would never have certified the C-150. :D
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I don't know just how tall the FAA 170 lb. guy was.....
But I'm 6'1" & 175lbs. now, and fly the 152.....:D
(Down 53 lbs, from 1.5 yrs ago)

A bummer gettin in and out.... but after that it's not too bad. :rofl:
 
Chache said:
I don't know just how tall the FAA 170 lb. guy was.....
But I'm 6'1" & 175lbs. now, and fly the 152.....:D
(Down 53 lbs, from 1.5 yrs ago)

A bummer gettin in and out.... but after that it's not too bad. :rofl:
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My problem with the 150 is legroom. I can't get the seat back far enough. Legs hit the bottom of the panel when I go for the brakes. 4.1 hours total in one and I'll stick with 172s and 182s. :D
 
Frank, I love you. I, too, am above average.
 
Chache said:
I don't know just how tall the FAA 170 lb. guy was.....
But I'm 6'1" & 175lbs. now, and fly the 152.....:D
(Down 53 lbs, from 1.5 yrs ago)A bummer gettin in and out.... but after that it's not too bad. :rofl:
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GOOD JOB!!!

I'm 6'1" and 217, so I've got about 20 lbs to lose, here - but I'm working on it!! :D
 
I am 5lbs under right now but plan on being 5 lbs over in about months (thanks to a steading lifting regime).
 
When I got out of rescue swimmer school (which must have been the best shape I've ever been in), I was 6'3" and 207 Lbs.

Eighteen years later, I'm 6'2" and 235. My doc says that I should shoot for 220 as a start and then we'll go get a true body fat measurement and set a new target from that. I think the ideal weight based on the generic BMI is 185 or so, but my doctor thinks that's way too low for me.
 
Well at 6'-3" and 135 definately under. I have weighed within 3 pounds of that for the last 30 years plus, don't figure it is gonna change, or would I want it to.
 
I am embarrassed and this year I am going to do something about it. Like the others, I think the "embarrassed" category doesn't really fit. I'm a big guy! Almost 30 years ago I came out of Navy OCS weighing 210 and I looked great. Today I'd like to weigh 230. Well, hell I'd like to weigh 210 but 230 is a much more realistic goal. 'tis a long way down from where I am, though.... :redface:

-Skip
 
er, considerably less. Nick, I pretty much make up your difference so we can sit together.
 
Skip Miller said:
Almost 30 years ago I came out of Navy OCS weighing 210 and I looked great.
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I left OCS 20 years ago at 180, and am 195 now. At 6'2", I'd like to be 10 less, 180-185 would be more ideal for my bone structure.
 
I am 5'4 139lbs. I need to go on a diet.
 
I'm 6'4" and 260 (down from 270 last month) so I am definatly on the embassing side. When I get to my target of 210 I still will be. Clothes are going to be expensive this year.
 
6'3", 193 lbs, not embarrassed.

The real (and only) question: Do you look good naked, yes or no? The heck with the FAA! :D
 
Don Jones said:
Tee Hee, really chaps my wife when my cholesterol gets checked and it's like
125.
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Just had mine checked for my SI...Medical

Now....167:yes:
in 2001...239:hairraise:

Yes, I've been very, very good!
 
etsisk said:
Oh, so NOW he changes his icon!!!!! Uh huh . . . It's ok, Brian - we'll still remember that haircut!! :hairraise:

:D
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What? I started wearing a hat 'cause you all make fun of my hair. Is it my fault a mirror wasn't around? :D
 
5'7" and 20 lbs under and you think you're dangerious? ...I think I could take ya! ;)
 
5' 11" and 180 lbs.

But I have an unfair advantage. I wear a 30lb. toolbag everyday and work outdoors in Arizona. The summers will get me down to 170lbs. if I don't eat enough.
 
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