Pilot Mag Quiz
In this month’s Pilot Magazine quiz, question 5 has us imagining that a Beluga A300-600 is transporting 3000 kilos of unrestrained live geese. During the flight they all take-off. The magazine suggests that this will have no impact on the weight of the aircraft. Shurly Shome Mishtake.
Let us imaging that each of these geese were sitting on a set of sensors attached to a digital weight read-out. As this mass disturbance took place the scales would drop from 3000 kilos to 0 kilos. Now I agree that if they were all in ground effect there would still be some weight on the aircraft but I maintain the weight of the aircraft would drop and it would shoot up in the air.
I was going to post this in the Private Pilots section but thought it would sit better here.