On Friday, 29 July 2016 at 07:01:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
The pilot reads the indicated value, interprets it in the context of what the other instruments say, APPLIES GOOD JUDGMENT, and flies the airplane.
Continuing with this metaphor, in this situation you're not the pilot making the judgement, you're the aerospace engineer deciding that the speedometer in the plane can be off by several hundred m/s and it's no big deal.
Yes, every measurement in the real world has a margin of error. But, since we're dealing with computers this is one of the rare situations where a perfect number can actually be obtained and presented to the user.
There is no right or wrong airspeed.
The right one is the actual speed of the plane and the wrong one is every other number.
