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Old 12th Mar 2016, 10:23
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Genghis the Engineer
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That's an interesting question Pace.

Take the nominal 4 seat SEP - Vref=65, and let's say wind 25G36, which isn't all that unusual. If 65=1.3Vs, then Vs=50.

Into wind at a nominal 25 knots, keeping inertial groundspeed, then the airspeed will fluctuate from 65 to 76 knots, but shouldn't in theory go down.

Into wind at 36 which then drops to 25, it's more interesting. 65 will drop to 54 (briefly, the aeroplane will self recover speed due to static stability if this condition sustains and with the relatively low inertia of a light aeroplane speed will change much faster than in your Citation). That's certainly enough to get you into stall warning application.

The Citation with Vref=105, presumaby Vs ~ 105/1.3=80kIAS. So, not unlike my example above, +/- 25kIAS is nibbling the stall (and I suspect nibbling Vfe?), but with static stability sporting, rather than destructive.

All of which is very "fag packet" - one of these days I'd really like to take the time and some flying hours to try and study this properly.

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