Meaning of load factor | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The acceleration experienced by an aircraft along a given axis at a particular instant in time.
2. The percentage of a transportation system's maximum passenger capacity that is actually used.
3. The mean load over a given time period divided by the peak load occurring during the same time period, providing a measure of how efficiently an electric system's capacity is being used.
4. The proportion of the buckets in a hash table which contain entries.

Examples

“FDR data indicated that, about 0915:36, the airplane experienced a 0.04 G drop in longitudinal load factor, a 0.07 G shift to the left in lateral load factor, and about a 0.3 G drop in normal (vertical) load factor. The airplane performance study found that these excursions were consistent with a wake turbulence encounter.”

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