good presentation, the methodology in there seems to follow like what the airline industry is doing (optimizing flight path for fuel, noise impact...).
if its a sign of things to come, that means no more buzzing the beach at 500ft AGL on a beautiful day. the computer will tell you your finely optimized and most appropriate flight trajectory.
one more point, piston engine have much more torque, than turbines. does that plays any benefit anywhere, for example during training exercise, the instructor can wait a bit more before recovering that sagging RPM that the student mishandled.
is it really that expensive to re engineer the engine part of an aircraft compared to the initial design cost of a program like the EC120.
Last edited by Agile; 2nd Dec 2015 at 08:01.