How Accurate is the American Aeronautics weight and balance calculator?
The American Aeronautics weight and balance calculator is extremely accurate. The plotter and graph system is accurate to the width of a pencil or pen line drawn over eight inches. Well under 1% error. Just as a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, a calculation is only as accurate as its weakest data. Taking into consideration normal error introduced from such things as aircraft weighing, passenger weight determination, and fuel gauges, the best accuracy, even if everything is done right, is 2% error. This is a much larger error than the approximately % introduced by the American Aeronautics system.
