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Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)

17th Nov 2012, 10:28

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Sticky ATPL theory questions

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Posted By Dick Whittingham

First, differentiate between efficiency and...

First, differentiate between efficiency and thrust. You can have a grossly inefficient engine producing lots of thrust. Second, efficiency is always stated as a comparison - SFC is a good example,...

Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)

6th Aug 2012, 16:59

Replies: 1,315

Sticky ATPL theory questions

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Posted By Dick Whittingham

Lars Yes, it's a word thing. I now think I...

Lars

Yes, it's a word thing. I now think I understand what you say, and I am happy to find that I have not been wildly wrong, Thanks a lot

Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)

6th Aug 2012, 13:43

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Sticky ATPL theory questions

Views: 917,943

Posted By Dick Whittingham

lasseb Continuing, for simplicity, with the...

lasseb

Continuing, for simplicity, with the stable platform INS, if in ALIGN the levelling is carried out without error and there is no gravity element being sensed by the N/S and E/W...

Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)

6th Aug 2012, 11:53

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Sticky ATPL theory questions

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Posted By Dick Whittingham

lasseb If you "dampen" the response to...

lasseb

If you "dampen" the response to errors due to incorrect levelling how do you allow the primary function to continue un-damped?

Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)

6th Aug 2012, 10:14

Replies: 1,315

Sticky ATPL theory questions

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Posted By Dick Whittingham

Akafrank07 Whatever referece notes you are...

Akafrank07

Whatever referece notes you are using, I suggest you get a better set.

That statement is not true

Dick

Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)

6th Aug 2012, 10:07

Replies: 1,315

Sticky ATPL theory questions

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Posted By Dick Whittingham

But note that a strapdown IRS keeps a...

But note that a strapdown IRS keeps a mathematical equivalent of the stable plaform and reacts to setup errors or gravitational errors in the same way as a stable platform INS - with bounded position...

Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)

26th Jul 2012, 10:03

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Sticky ATPL theory questions

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Posted By Dick Whittingham

If we restrict ourselves to the "classic"...

If we restrict ourselves to the "classic" sub-tropical jets then they are westerlies because the thermal equator is more or less at the geographic equator - except in one case. In the northern...

Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)

25th Jul 2012, 14:25

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Sticky ATPL theory questions

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Posted By Dick Whittingham

Assuming that A and B and the meeting point are...

Assuming that A and B and the meeting point are in a straight line and that the meeting point lies on the line between A and B

Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)

14th Feb 2012, 16:13

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Sticky ATPL theory questions

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Posted By Dick Whittingham

Gracias S I had an idea that for high...

Gracias S

I had an idea that for high altitude fields a different datum was used.

No soy gringo, soy ingles - as I have had to say many times in Ecuador

Cheers, Dick

Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)

14th Feb 2012, 15:10

Replies: 1,315

Sticky ATPL theory questions

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Posted By Dick Whittingham

Ola peruano While you are here could you pse...

Ola peruano

While you are here could you pse say how QNH is calculated at high altitude airfields like Cuzco and La Paz

Dick

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