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John Heddles
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Distance to commence a descend

Good one - always best if you can spot the problems yourself - sticks in the memory cells far more effectively.

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Distance to commence a descend

[color=blue][i][b]I got 23NM but I used E6B computer and rounded the distance 13NM for the distance covered during the descent.[/b][/i][/color] The...

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PPL - Topic 14 - Propeller

I'd take a slightly different perspective (but still much the same story) to that of my colleague, Carello. If we have some fluid (in this case, ai...

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Vb speed

I'll write up some notes on this question as Va, in particular, is full of OWTs throughout the piloting fraternity. In recent years the regulators h...

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Safe Endurance With Variable Reserve

First, CASA keeps changing things faster than the rest of us can change clothes from day to day. How Bob and Stuart manage to keep up with the chang...

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Progress Test 1 page 230

Adding a little extra to Stuart's post - (a) quantifying the effect can be seen from the EOD chart in the AIP at page ref GEN 2.7-5. (b) ...

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Echo loading system

Probably you are concerned by the lack of CG data. This, I suggest, is one of the problems arising from trying to fit questions to predetermined ans...

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Toda

Silly question. Presuming that TORA and ASDA both commence from the same point Assuming that the clearway reference means that the end of the clea...

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Density Height

[color=blue][i][b]we would start with a simple diagram[/b][/i][/color] Absolutely the way to go (even if the yacht cartoonist has no idea about win...

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CAO 20.7.4 and answering take-off and landing weight charts that include a slope

You, good sir, as another one of us olde folkes, would remember back to the days of the ANO/CAO 101 series which addressed the airworthiness requireme...

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CAO 20.7.4 and answering take-off and landing weight charts that include a slope

[color=red][i][b]If you've got it - use it.[/b][/i][/color] Philosophically, as a performance engineer, I couldn’t agree more. However, we need ...

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CAO 20.7.4 and answering take-off and landing weight charts that include a slope

Your post doesn't explicitly state just what your concern is so I can only speak generally. This slope thing for light aircraft has been around for...

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Density Height

Boy, but my head is still reeling from the equation ..... Side comment - it doesn't matter all that much, I guess, but you have more brackets, ther...

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Density Height

Perhaps you might post your solution to the forum for comment ?

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Should I be using ETAS in the CASA exam?

Ah, that's the Jepp CR style. A good example of the naming problem - E-6B was a US Army Air Corps designation for the Dalton. For some obscure, p...

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