Dave Luff wrote: > John Wojnaroski writes: > > Some want to work spins, prop contact points, etc. But a LOT of > > accidents occur because the PIC failed to do a proper weight and > > balance, overloaded the A/C, and/or exceeded the CG > > limits. Something to consider - how about a weight and balance sheet > > to fill out before one can start engines ( it could be a file ), but > > no tickee no engine start. > > Surely it would be more realistic if the engines would happily start > without filling out the weight and balance, but a random and possibly > dangerous CG would be assigned...
I'd have to agree. Not that a computerized W&B is a bad idea -- I think it'd be really nifty. But it strikes me that the appropriate "training" behavior for an out-of-spec c.g. would be to allow the pilot to take off just fine, and *cause* one of those pilot killing accidents. :) Andy -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
