John Heddles
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Range and Endurance

I don't have your particular POH page to review. Perhaps you might post a photo of it ? I expect that it will indicate that the speed recommended ...

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Minimum climb rate

This sort of question revolves on the specific wording. Presumably you have related the question from somewhere else ? Can you confirm that yo...

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Altimetry Rates

If I may add a few words to Stuart’s and Bob’s posts. [color=blue][i][b]I would have expected both to have some relationship to the underlying ISA ...

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Passed Performance!

OK, it's pretty clear that you have a Dalton and your brother-in-law a Jepp. However, it appears that, perhaps, both of you really don't understand...

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Passed Performance!

It won't take long to sort out your problem. First, though, we need to be quite clear just which nav computer you have. "E6B" doesn't define it ad...

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Air Law summary sheet

Not for taking in. My observation is that many students have never heard of it so I like to give it a plug, where appropriate.

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Passed Performance!

Once again, be wary of terms in weight and balance. Industry practice, over the years, has resulted in its being a bit of a dog's breakfast. For...

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Passed Performance!

Empty weight definition. This is defined in CAO100. 7 and no-where else. All other terms, essentially, are not defined other than within the conte...

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Passed Performance!

Reading between the lines, MissSoph uses a Dalton nav computer, not a Jepp machine ? If that is the case, then ETAS would have no functional meani...

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Rounding

As before, the mantra is - (a) if the examiner indicates he wants something specific in the question, do it (b) otherwise, round conservatively,...

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Air Law summary sheet

Suggest you include CAO 100.7 in the list. While not directly examinable, it gives you stuff which isn't anywhere else. The definition of "empty w...

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Safe endurance calculations

OK, the discussion has gone right off the rails, so let's start again, shall we ? In your first post, you state a concern that the VR factor has be...

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Safe endurance calculations

[color=blue][i][b]The second half of your reply confuses me despite reading it carefully 4 times.[/b][/i][/color] I'm not quite sure that I follow ...

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Safe endurance calculations

[color=blue][i][b]SE = (Total fuel - Fixed reserve - Startup/Taxi - Holding) / 1.1 / Fuel Flow[/b][/i][/color] You might like to note that you will...

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Pressure height

Equations are fine providing they are used correctly and appropriately and with due consideration of any inherent limitations. Unfortunately, my ob...

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