Semi-OT: Database for "average" users

[Peter]

On Mon, 2 May 2005, JoeHill wrote:

>> Since when do economy class passengers know how to fly the plane, let
>> alone design modifications for it (push the button and watch the landing
>> gear come out - at 400 mph - oops you didn't know it was going to stall
>> at that altitude ? oh, we sell upgrades that cover that situation)
>
> I see your point, but to continue the analogy, I would not want to be stuck on
> the tarmac for 3 hours because Bill Gates overloaded the plane with excess
> baggage :-)))

Well, it's ok, because you will not be stuck on the tarmac, at least in 
the beginning. You may be creamed on it later, but let's ignore that, 
who reads the fine print in that clickthrough contract anyway ?. They 
will take off anyway. Overweight, schmoverweight, they have powerful 
engines now, unlike those old piston aircraft. Never mind you will run 
out of fuel in mid-Atlantic and the pilot will have to hold the stick 
forward by standing on it with both feet all the way (*)

Peter

(*) I picked this up from a book about DC3s serving the 
America-Iceland-Europe cargo tour during WW2 - apparently they loaded 
the planes so heavily they had to fly like that for half the way or so - 
until the fuel load in the extra tanks in the fuselage was burned off.


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