PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - do we really need to retract flaps in case of an engine failure after take-off?
Thread: do we really need to retract flaps in case of an engine failure after take-off?
View Single Post
Old 2nd Jan 2011, 15:48
  #20 (permalink)  
XPMorten
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: north
Posts: 319
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
An acft with flap usually has more drag than one without. This again
means you need more thrust (assymetric) giving more acft assymetry, which again means even more drag...which again..

xpm
Last edited by XPMorten; 2nd Jan 2011 at 16:33.
XPMorten is offline  
Reply