John Heddles
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Fuel for flight

[color=blue][i][b]Firstly you must solve the balance problem with ballast fuel and hard ballast.[/b][/i][/color] Therein lies a problem, as the que...

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Fuel for flight

Perhaps you can post your answer and working for some discussion ? Also, folks need to keep in mind that, unless everyone is looking at the exac...

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Fwd limit and fuel

The question's intent is just to test you on the fuel consideration. In the real world you would have run the ZFW calculation and got it right, the...

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Fwd limit and fuel

Thanks, Sophie. Ends up pretty straightforward. (a) I wouldn't worry about the ZFW for this one. All you could do if the load is out at ZFW is ...

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Fwd limit and fuel

Maybe post the specific question which is causing you the grief ? There are some traps you need to watch out for - generalisations often can result ...

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Ex 5.10 fuel as ballast drill exercises

It does make things a tad easier were you to post the question as it is presented ? That way there is no potential for interpretative problems.

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Load factors and % of wing span for ground effect

Looks like I was out of order. Gavin has come back and confirmed that the whizz wheel is not permitted in CADA. I can't really agree with his reas...

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Ground Effect

[color=blue][i]This story is a bit long-winded but, hopefully, it helps. If I only have confused the issue for you, ask some more questions and we c...

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Power increase during a turn at the stalling angle of attack

[color=blue][i][b]Q. If power is increased during a turn while maintaining the stalling angle of attack A. The radius of turn will remain the same an...

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Clearance of obstacles- who is responsible

A vexed question. The answer is easy - Captain Speaking is the answer. Now, the problems (and this stuff is my stock in trade as an operations e...

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Load factors and % of wing span for ground effect

I may be out of order on the exam specifics - will follow that up and come back in due course. I had presumed (perhaps incorrectly now that you have...

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Load factors and % of wing span for ground effect

[color=blue][i][b]Unfortunately the permitted materials for the CPL aerodynamics exam are just a basic calculator (non scientific). It seems in this...

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Load factors and % of wing span for ground effect

[color=blue][i][b]With the load factors will they ask for odd bank angles in the exam, eg. 23 degrees? Or will it just be the standard 30, 45, 60, 75,...

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Effect of weight on radius of turn

[color=blue][i][b]I can see that in your book it explains that weight has absolutely no effect on Radius or Rate of turn.[/b][/i][/color] What thi...

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Climb Weight limits

[color=blue][i][b]drawing the line throughout the entire chart [/b][/i][/color] This establishes the field length limited TOW. [color=blue][i][b...

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