Originally Posted by
Deaf
A question came up in dicussion tonight Assume C130H, Full power, 2,000Kg Load, fuel for 3 hours, density altitude 5,000 ft, Max angle of climb speed -Any idea of ROC
WAG was 3,000 fpm @ 130 kts but without the book it is just a WAG
That's not a bad WAG. Lockheed doesn't publish Max angle of climb speeds and charts, at least for the civilian operators, but you can kinda get an idea from the enroute climb charts. Figure 80,000 lb BOW, 5,000 lb load (rounding up) 15000 lb fuel for 100K . At ISA+ 20 climb would be 2470 fpm from 2000 to 4000. That would be with flaps retracted, normal climb power, and 170 kt IAS.