Deskpilot Posted October 6, 2015 Posted October 6, 2015 An oldie but oh so true. Not talking about my instructor here but another school, sharing the same field........................aaaaagh By the way, is there a name for a short continuous curve approach other than 'glide approach'?
johnm Posted October 7, 2015 Posted October 7, 2015 interesting point - an air cooled engine with a power on approach - a steeper approach is more difficult to achieve with a water cooled motor all you do is go to idle power is this correct logic ?
facthunter Posted October 7, 2015 Posted October 7, 2015 Jet's don't do idle power approaches. With basically a 3 degree approach and full flap, and stable airspeed most aircraft will have power on, more so when there is a headwind component. A curved approach is no different in principle, if the basic slope used is the same. Ultralights probably use a 5-6 degree slope or even more if a power off technique is used. You can work it out from L/D, Glide angle about 10:1. average. Nev
Deskpilot Posted October 7, 2015 Posted October 7, 2015 Nev, you referred to a curved approach, it that what you would call at an airfield where others are in circuit? 1
facthunter Posted October 7, 2015 Posted October 7, 2015 I would fit in with standard procedures as a rule, but say I had a long nosed unflapped plane I would monitor other traffic and say tracking for short final , close base, or something as advisory if in any way necessary. Airline circuits are "racecourse" generally. It's not a big deal in practice. Nev
Phil Perry Posted October 8, 2015 Author Posted October 8, 2015 Hmm,... I remember during the battle of Britain, we used to have to do those in spit landings, hard to see over that bloody great nose .
facthunter Posted October 8, 2015 Posted October 8, 2015 Gee!!! Were YOU there during the Blitz? And flew out of grassy paddocks.?Nev
kaz3g Posted October 9, 2015 Posted October 9, 2015 An oldie but oh so true. Not talking about my instructor here but another school, sharing the same field........................aaaaaghBy the way, is there a name for a short continuous curve approach other than 'glide approach'? Spitfire circuit! The long nose blocked out all forward vision as it was raised to fly slowly in the circuit and so they adopted a curved approach so the pilot was able to see the Rwy . Boy Gillum's autobiography describes how he hit the chance light on his first night solo because he couldn't see the runway lights with flaps as he completed his turn onto final. Kaz
Phil Perry Posted October 9, 2015 Author Posted October 9, 2015 Gee!!! Were YOU there during the Blitz? And flew out of grassy paddocks.?Nev Hehehe . . . . . .Anyhow Nev,. . .the London "Blitz" came after Goering had given up blowing up our grass airfields !
Phil Perry Posted October 9, 2015 Author Posted October 9, 2015 Who says a Spit has a bloody great nose? Naw mate,. . . . that's just a Boeing SeveNoseven innit ? 1
facthunter Posted October 11, 2015 Posted October 11, 2015 THAT one wouldn't interfere with your normal field of vision. Nev
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