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Bob Noel
I made a similar egregious misstep this weekend by trying to get my passenger's (a girl) weight at our Gaston's fly in. I promised her it was for W&B reasons needed for safe flying but she still was less than cooperative...
While a student, I was doing a W&B for a flight. I asked my instructor for her weight. She replied "128". I wrote 135 as a fudge-factor and to account for clothes and such. She repeated "128", and I said I was just being conserv... "I SAID 128". I finally got the message and wrote her weight as 128 (and then silently added 7 pounds to my weight)...
(at 5' 8", my instructor did NOT need to worry about her weight...)