judging takeoff run acceleration
the near disaster with the emirates airbus at melbourne, australia, with a much too low weight entered into the system, raises the question, how is the acceleration during the take off run measured. Is it judged by the push in the back from the pilots seat only
is there a G meter?
it seems that until the last possble minute, none of the pilots realised the take off acceleration was much too slow
also in something of an apparent panic they pulled back too far on the controls, causing a heavy tailstrike