Altitude Capability
Hi Everyone,
Question. Today on the way out to the Atlantic entry point, establishing what our maximum altitude, optimum altitude and buffet margins will be at a given weight, temperature and altitude, I noticed that the figures for Mach 0.80 and Mach 0.81 were obviously different. But:
For an increased Mach number, the optimum altitude, maximum altitude and buffet margins were higher which surprised me as surely the higher the speed, the closer to coffins corner and buffet margins surely would be reduced.
Why is the increased speed giving higher numbers?
Thanks