As long as we are ranting about useless button pushing...
Why can't the ACARS W&B put in the BOW and appropriate MATOW when selected? I.E. If I type in the wrong BOW it comes back with a message of "Verify BOW." Well, if the **** thing knows it's wrong why can't it just tell me the right one?
And after putting in the fuel Burn, if I add wrong and put in the wrong LS limit weight, the scratch pad has a red "MATOW Limit Disagree" message, if it knows what the right answer is, why can't it put it in there when I select Landing Structural as the limit. Takeoff Structural should be automatically loaded. Now the others, Runway, Climb, etc. would still obviously have to be hand input, but how often are those the limits compared to LS or TS?
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