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The bug is in the weight of the payload of the plane. I don't believe pilots have any way to measure the actual weight of the payload of the plane, they rely on
by cm2187 4y ago
The bug is in the weight of the payload of the plane. I don't believe pilots have any way to measure the actual weight of the payload of the plane, they rely on that sort of estimates to determine how much fuel they need, take-off speed, etc. It's not really a loss of authority.
Bad weight estimates have resulted in crashes in the past.
- wkat4242 4y agoI wonder if it would be possible to put a weighing pad at airports for a double-check. Like on the access ramp to the runway, meaning you'd only need a handful per airport and planes pass them naturally.
- wolrah 4y ago> I wonder if it would be possible to put a weighing pad at airports for a double-check. A few modern pickup trucks have a system for measuring how much weight is in the bed or being transferred through the tongue of a trailer because of how common it is for people to overload their trucks. AFAIK these systems just use the same sorts of suspension height sensors that have been used for auto-levelling for years and are factory calibrated to know that if the rear end squats by X distance then there must be Y load in it. Seems like something along those lines would be technically easy to retrofit to large aircraft, possibly even as a software update if they already have some relevant sensors.