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Some additional points - (a) significant slope will give you a one-way strip operation - see many examples from PNG (b) probably not going to be...
[color=blue][i][b]1. VGs[/b][/i][/color] VGs are a bit difficult when it comes to broad brush questions such as the exams favour. VGs are a fix...
I was having a reread of this thread and it occurred to me that, while (a) we were talking about the situation for a min Va certification, which p...
[color=blue][i][b]Circling areas have been surveyed to provide guaranteed obstacle protection[/b][/i][/color] Are you quite sure about that ? I'...
Depends on how the question and the associated data is presented. Static data is a major part of the flight test program. The data is summarised an...
First, while I have some engineering background with helos, I don't consider myself to be an expert in any shape or form .... However, you might l...
[color=red][i][b]Any[/b][/i][/color] time you see a reference to [color=blue][i][b]"usable fuel"[/b][/i][/color] it [color=blue][i][b]means the fuel a...
The NASA report will provide some interesting reading but you will derive better value from reading Gentry's articles. If they are not at the refere...
If you really want to remember formulae (when it is just as easy to figure the relationship out when you need it), you use the form appropriate to wha...
You might like to have a look at some historical articles. Two sources come to mind - (a) the entire DCA Aviation Safety Digest archive is availa...
Probably worth a few comments here, methinks. First up, the accepted theory of lift (circulation theory .. things long ago progressed past Bernoull...
Now, that's a fairly broad-brush question and not one for which there are simple answers. Perhaps you might give us a little more information as to ...
Better still - and it probably will help others - why not do a couple of examples and then post a scan of the charts with commentary. Such might...
Did the question provide a CG/moment/IU ?
One can divert in one direction .. or, indeed, in the opposite direction ? Therein lies the confusion.