By rafale52 - 11/12/2017 10:52:16 AM
A very outstanding new feature would be to integrate the calculating of the Take-off and landing distance into the flight planning with the aircraft selected (based on weight and balance and so on) and the airport data from the departure and arrival aerodrome. (as the app iduna fly does)
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By ckurz7000 - 11/17/2017 9:37:26 AM
+x+xThere way too many variables in calculating take-off and landing distance which require the pilot to use his own judgement: wind, grass/asphalt, rough/even, wet/dry, sloping, etc. Given the problems people have even when entering a simple weight and balance envelope it seems unlikely that the user could enter reliably correct information from handbook tables which are, depending on the aircraft, all in different formats. And in the end remains the ubiquitous liability question. -- Chris. Hello Chris, I am all ears, but fear the next one is just right the corner and trying to say "because people are too utterly stupid to do the calculation, wouldn't it be nice to pull that brain burden from them" - just kiddin', but not completely. Pushbuttonflyers are a contemporary issue and have little to do with pilots, but they are emerging, no matter what we discuss. My major point is - there isn't really a "calculation", there is empirical data of others listed in non-standard tables and there is interpolation of data between these listed values, combined, enriched and accounted for with personal guts feeling. And I agree, the bad experience with people struggling with putting in simple W&B data in Skydemon shows many don't know what they are doing. Overautomation cannot be the way to go.
Sorry, I must be getting on in age, I know.
-- Chris (who loves flying and navigating).
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