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Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions

10th Feb 2017, 05:45

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Mallard Down in Perth

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Posted By itsnotthatbloodyhard

LeadSled, could you please point out which posts...

LeadSled, could you please point out which posts said that wind shear, microbursts etc have no effect on IAS?

Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions

31st Jan 2017, 11:01

Replies: 370

Mallard Down in Perth

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Posted By itsnotthatbloodyhard

Vincent, apart from your climbing turn bleeding...

Vincent, apart from your climbing turn bleeding off airspeed, and the natural tendency to want to pull the turn tighter as you get blown downwind, there's also the fact that the wind tends to...

Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions

31st Jan 2017, 08:33

Replies: 370

Mallard Down in Perth

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Posted By itsnotthatbloodyhard

You'd think so, Pinky, but I've heard this sort...

You'd think so, Pinky, but I've heard this sort of nonsense from 20000-hr veterans of the industry. And if you point out that absolutely nothing happened to the IAS when we were flying orbits in a 50...

Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions

30th Jan 2017, 19:50

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Mallard Down in Perth

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Posted By itsnotthatbloodyhard

Manoeuvring in a constant air mass isn't a change...

Manoeuvring in a constant air mass isn't a change in the velocity of the air mass.

Sorry, you're confusing your frames of reference. Otherwise it'd be incredibly difficult to reverse...

Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions

30th Jan 2017, 11:46

Replies: 370

Mallard Down in Perth

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Posted By itsnotthatbloodyhard

It cares about the moving air mass - that's what...

It cares about the moving air mass - that's what it's flying relative to. If the moving air mass suddenly changes its speed or direction, it cares about that too. It just doesn't care about the...

Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions

28th Jan 2017, 22:05

Replies: 370

Mallard Down in Perth

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Posted By itsnotthatbloodyhard

Penny, in that case, why don't airliners...

Penny, in that case, why don't airliners alternately stall and overspeed as they circle in a 100 kt jetstream? Why does the wind have no effect on a fighter manoeuvring at max performance on the...

Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions

28th Jan 2017, 03:20

Replies: 370

Mallard Down in Perth

Views: 166,959

Posted By itsnotthatbloodyhard

For those who still believe in the old turning...

For those who still believe in the old turning downwind furphy, despite the best efforts of the headmaster et al: Have a think about what happens if you fly constant-AOB orbits in a jet at higher...

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