On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 09:50, David Megginson wrote: > 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?).
Altitude and rate of change of DME ought to work too ... > > > All the best, > > > David -- Tony Peden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
