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Old 20th Mar 2008, 16:36
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Remember that 80% humidity means that the air has 80% of the moisture it can hold at that temperature, not that 80% of the air is water.
Strewth no, that would be sparkling water, not air!

As a newly qualified Puma pilot in the late 1970s I was asked to do some research into this; we had to fly in Belize, in 100 degrees Fahrenheit, 100% humidity. The answer was that high humidiity did have a detrimental effect on DA but nowhere near as much as that of the high OAT. Unfortunately, I no longer have the written info, I think it went into a file on 230 Sqn and has probably gone into "file 13" now.
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