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First off, what is the ignition all about ? You guessed it - providing a spark at the right time to get the combustible mixture in the chamber b...
Just a terminology thing. "Upper deck" refers to the supercharger/turbocharger discharge or output. Hence upper deck pressure is the discharge pre...
First point is that a sketch provides useful visual reasoning input. Second - you are almost there. Take a moment to consider the temperature devi...
An additional comment to Bob's observations, if I may. If the charts have been drawn with a bit of care, then the bottom line of the density altitu...
With a certification engineering hat on, which is my background, I'd probably take a somewhat softer line than Bob on this one .. CAO 20.7.4.1.a...
Why would you not use the actual slope for the particular runway ?
I checked this point with the examiner recently. When any of the rules change, the exam changes and reflects the current rules. So, no, the old ru...
Be very wary of trying to push hypoxic symptoms into a neat box. One of the reasons the military require chamber runs is to accustom folks to th...
Not my area of expertise but you might like to have a look at some of the links in this search -
I'll leave it to Bob to speak to the book. However, to be fair, it does take a little while to revise stuff, especially with the workload of all subj...
Fair questions. [color=blue][i][b] fixed reserves are reserves used for holding.[/b][/i][/color] Yes, but the intent is for serious emergency h...
In this sense, "quarter" or "quartering" derives from traditional nautical practice, such as in That is, if you are pointing north, say, a quarterin...
Looking at the C172 examples, at [attachment=1534]C172S_WB.pdf[/attachment], and [attachment=1535]C172_G1000_WB.pdf[/attachment] The data f...
Range - you would like actually to get somewhere useful. As the wind has a direct influence on G/S, the specific ground range (SGR) (which is the r...
The C206 data referred to by PJ045 is available at the link cited in the earlier post and on this site at - [attachment=1533]C206G_WB.pdf[/attachm...