>> [...] I'm having trouble seeing the error. > [...various people...]
Ah, yes, if you compute the number of pounds you have and then think - or inadvertently tell your aircraft - that number is how many kilograms you have...yes, I can see the problem now. It's not clear from the article whether they fed the aircraft what they knew were pound figures, not realizing it was expecting kg, or whether they computed pound numbers but thought they'd computed kg numbers, but the only difference lies in where the mistake was made - the effect is the same. In principle this could have been caught at the stop in Ottawa, since the fuel consumed would not jibe with the amount apparently needed to refill. I rather suspect that any discrepancy here would have been treated as "that's odd, well, let's check out how much we really have now..." and a repetition of the mistake. I'm reminded of some stuff I did for a billing system where I saw a discrepancy of three thousandths of a cent. This totally was an ignorably small amount, but it bothered me enough that I dug until I knew where it came from; after reading this story, I'm glad I have that tendency. (It turned out to be nothing important, in this case, but still.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user