TABLE OF CONTENTS The relationship between weight (mass) and performance of an airplane is generally well understood by most pilots and nonpilots too. Try to put too much weight on those wings and the takeoff is going to be longer much longer, or actually so long that there is not enough runway to continue and there is no takeoff at all. Ouch!
The more common problem seems to be in understanding how much all that stuff that you (or your significant other) want to bring along actually weighs. Packing the airplane for a trip with friends or family is just like packing your backpack for an excursion in the outdoors. The fact that everything seemed to ft in does not mean you will be able to lift it. As a pilot you won't be allowed to guess at it; you will have to compile a weight and balance sheet and, if necessary, use a scale to determine the exact numbers and decide what to sacrifice: some of the load or maybe some of the fuel. One thing that I can strongly discourage you from doing, though, is to ask your significant other to step on the scale.
In many embedded-control applications you might find a need for a larger nonvolatile data storage space, well beyond the capabilities of the common serial EEPROM devices we interfaced to in previous chapters and certainly larger than the Flash program memory available inside the microcontroller itself. You might be looking for orders of magnitude more,...
