Has anybody else had this happen?

Hi,

you have based all your calculations on vague information. Smoku has used... euh... reversed engineering to find the sizes of the seats. With the new cabin editor, the results will be different for every aircraft.

With the old system, we knew the sizes of the seats. And the system used a simple calculation, without checking seats and rows. A 73G can carry 149 passengers, and ecoplus was a size 1.5 seat. That meant you could fit 99.33333 (=99) ecoplus seats in a 73G. So with the old system you never lost more than one seat. The computer just divided the maximum number of passengers by the size of the seat and then rounded that number.

The new system actually uses the dimensions of the seat and checks how many seats fit in the plane. The AS-team used actual information, based on real seats. Unfortunately some seats don't fit very well in some planes. If you take seats that are being made for Boeing (just an example), you will be able to put six seats abreast, with an aisle in the middle. But if your plane is 10 cm smaller than that Boeing, the new system can only put 5 seats next to each other... and you get a very wide aisle in the middle ;-)

Check the standard seat. If a plane is certified for 100 passengers, you should be able to put 100 standard seats in that plane. But because different planes have different floor plans, they don't always exactly fit, and you loose a few seats. That is not a real problem if you only loose a few seats. It does become a problem if you loose too many seats. That's what the whole discussions has been about.

Anyway, what smoku has done is reversed engineering. That is why he comes up with 1.42 for the 73G and 1.70 for the 777-200. I have done the same reverse calculations, for several planes, and the lowest number I got for the comfort plus is 1.31. So it could be that it's "size" or rating value is 1.3 ... but that is merely a guess.

Cheers,

Jan