-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Chevalier Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 3:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Calulators or Computers? (Was: Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?)
On 13 Oct 2009 07:30:14 -0700, [email protected] (Ed Finnell) wrote: >Anyway in this day and age TI or HP calculators can do most of >the preflight calculations... It's not quite that simple. Sure, your TI or HP probably could perform the calculations, but they don't integrate very well with the rest of the system. Once you've figured out your basic payload and center of gravity, now you need to order fuel. How much fuel? You don't want too much, since excess fuel travels at air freight rates. Obviously the outputs from weight & balance become input to your fuel calculations. But fuel requirements are also also a function of weather along the route. So you'd also like to tap into the weather forecasting system as inputs to the fuel system. <SNIP> Enter the spreadsheet on a laptop. Seems us GA pilots do this. And then the AOPA online flight planner w/ weather. Now, take it's idea of how long you will be in the air given the weather, add the required reserve and put that into the weight and balance. Hmmmm, over weight. Tell the family that they have to ship their knapsacks and lunch can't come with us. Clear prop and start engines.... Regards, Steve Thompson -- Opinions expressed by poster probably do not reflect those of the rest of aviation or poster's employer -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
