Principles of Flight
Hi to you all, I am hoping someone out there can put me out of my misery on this question which came up on yesterday's CPL PoF exam. I have spent considerable time trying to fathom it out and even spoken to a PoF ground training instructor and other than the general thought that it is to do with the lift equation Lift = Cl1/2rho(Vsquared)S and the answer must be a reduction I have got nowhere.
The wording may not be exact but the gist of the question is:
An aircraft is traveling at 2xVs and encounters a gust which causes a load factor of 2. If that aircraft had only been traveling at 1.3xVs when it encountered that gust, what would the load factor have been?
answers given were:
(a) 2
(b) 2. (something I don't remember the figure precisely say 2.3)
(c) 2. (something more as above say 2.6)
(d) 1.69
I gave the answer 1.69 on the basis of the logic above but can someone please help with a clear explanation of how to solve it.
Thanks
Nigel