The ACARS W&B was being put into use around the same time that the cockpit doors were being replaced. It was determined from auditing paper w&b forms that airplanes that had the doors replaced (which represents a significant increase in BOW) were flying around with the old bow used and therefore potentially overweight. I don't remember if we were fined or not but that's not the point. People were copying the bow from the perf init page instead of checking on the release, and so we're all paying the price to this day by having to make 6 extra key strokes (and I'll bet we're still copying it from the perf init page though...)
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