Camp SLO Air Assault (A.A) Phase 2 Practice Exam

Empty weight is the weight of the item itself with nothing loaded—no fuel, cargo, or attachments. For a 3 Fuel Blivet, the designation describes its capacity, not its own weight. The documented empty weight is 275 pounds, which is the mass of the blivet alone. When it’s loaded with fuel, you add the fuel weight to this figure to get the total (gross) weight. The other numbers would imply a heavier object than the blivet itself, so they don’t fit as the container’s empty weight.