Hi!
Originally Posted by
sprag47
... but we Yanks ...
This is getting way off topic now, but I am a proud European ;.) who flies a plane built by Yanks. The "AFM" (different Yanks call it "POH") keeps talking about "weight", but the figures it displays are all accompanied by units of mass ("lb" and "kg"). A big confusion so to say which I guess is caused by handbook writers with very little background in phyiscs. I am pretty much certain that the engineers who designed the plane used "mass" for their calculations otherwise the thing wouldn't fly as good as it does.