Originally Posted by
Vessbot
As I was coming home and getting ready to check the thread again, I was just thinking it needed more blowhard "it can stall at any airspeed" posts, and when I refreshed it I was not disappointed.
In more serious matters, I saw Wiedhopf's plot of the granular FR24 speed and altitude data, and it gave me the idea to grab the spreadsheet myself and calculate the Total Energy and add it to the plot,
Beat me to it!
There's more you can analyse though, but will need to double check my maths
1) the final descent angle looks to me to be -25%, far from a vertical dive into the sea
2) g force is around -0.1g (relative to 0g in level flight) for the dive, then +0.2g for the recovery. Uncomfortable but not excessive?
3) totally agree on the TE analysis. if you subtract a multiple of the cube of the velocity though you can get a rough approximation of engine power. looks to me like they reduced power a little after the first upset, then it varied quite a bit a while after they leveled off
I'll tidy up the charts and paste them later if anyone's interested.