Originally Posted by Founder
Does anyone have a smart simple way to calculate the climbgradient?
for example, will you clear an obstacle at 5000m that is 500 ft with a climbgradient of 5%? how do you calculate this?
Kind Regards
Tim
500 feet divided by climb gradient of 5% is 10 000 feet. Less than 5000 m.
Finding the climb gradient itself, from simple physics viewpoint... you could take thrust/weight, substract drag/lift... and wouldn´t you thus arrive at the climb gradient?
Of course, presumably there are required safety margins scattered all around the computations!