Innis Cunningham writes:
> Why ?.To both this and the W&B.
> As Dave says the empty weight is part of the certification.And I would think 
> it would be more
> important to worry about fuel ,baggage,passengers and the like than the 
> weight of the ASI.
> Why you would need to know the current draw of each instrument escape's 
> me.Surely this could
> be better handled on the power supply side.EG. A fully charged battery will 
> operate the the
> essential instruments for a given time.If you loose a generator then you 
> loose what ever it was
> feeding.If it was feeding a buss system then you may not loose anything 
> except the power to
> the coffee maker.
> What exactly will this information be used to do???.

To make the panel's ammeter behave realistically.  To be able to have
circuit breakers pop automatically (lower priority).  To be able to
have things start on fire when they are really overloaded (really low
priority.)

Curt.
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Twin Cities    curt 'at' me.umn.edu             curt 'at' flightgear.org
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