Performance of Light Aircraft (AIAA Education Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (846 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1563473305 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 475 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Among them: as a pilot banks to begin turning around at high altitude in a canyon, their airplane starts descending toward the rocks below! What should their first response be? The steady manoeuvring charts found in this book offer a full and graphical picture of the several competing factors needed to understand. Many practical flying topics, concepts that will make readers safer and more efficient pilots, are found in this guide. Is it better to take off uphill into the wind or downhill with the wind? This book illustrates quickly how to figure out which way to direct an airplane for any strength wind.. The cruise performance section of this book includes "scaling rules" that explain how to take a section of a cruise performance table (for one weight, one altitude) and extend it to cover other altitudes or other weights. A few glides, and a few minutes with a calculator, will reveal the two numbers needed to uncover an airplane's drag polar. Pilots, aviation students, kitplane builders, aircraft fleet operators and aeronautical engineers can all determine how their propeller-driven airplanes will perform, under any conditions, by using the step-by-step bootstrap approach introduced in this book. A few routine flying manoeuvres (climbs,
A Customer said A truly Excellent Book. Too many pilots don't fully understand the intricacies of piloting for maximum performance; their poor introduction to this important area of aviation being the oftentimes insufficient lessons from their flight instructors or from hangar flying. The aircraft's POH (pilots operating handbook) does indeed list several performance-oriented facts and figures but these are usually only valid for aircraft at their maximum gross weights! To add insult to injury, high performance flying is not readily int. Rich Stowell, Master CFI & author of 'Emergency Maneuver Training' said My Review:. In 'Performance of Light Aircraft,' John Lowry takes on the daunting challenge of quantifying airplane performance and wins! As a physicist, Dr. Lowry visualizes the myriad of variables affecting performance; as a pilot, Dr. Lowry understands the requirement for practical and readily-available information. So no need to be intimidated by complex derivations or strings of formulas--Dr. Lowry is with us, systematically grinding often unwieldy theory down into a user-friendly methodology he calls 'Th