Christian Mayer writes: > Sounds like a very reliable plane and/or company when the pilot has to > ask an "ordinary" passenger for his ground speed... > What would he do if no passenger had a GPS? Fly more carefully as he > doesn't know how reliable his data is?
The PC-12 is supposed to be a very good plane. He was probably just being friendly, and decided that it wouldn't hurt to get a cross-check. I think that the first officer was the pilot flying; I should have just handed the GPS to the captain and let him play around with it for a while. Even if his GPS wasn't giving him groundspeed information (and I have no reason to believe that's the case), he could easily get it with his wristwatch by timing a leg between two waypoints; time, speed and distance problems are not rocket science (right, Jon?). All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
