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Forum: Tech Log

23rd Feb 2010, 06:34

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judging takeoff run acceleration

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Posted By catiamonkey

You would be measuring sub-knot airspeed at 40...

You would be measuring sub-knot airspeed at 40 kts. And you're talking about acceleration. Acceleration decreases as the plane gets faster.

This was an area of active development 20 years ago, and...

Forum: Tech Log

23rd Feb 2010, 05:05

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judging takeoff run acceleration

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Posted By catiamonkey

That's going to create a ton of low speed...

That's going to create a ton of low speed rejects. Let's say you're going at 40 kts and a 10 kt headwind comes along. Now, according to the model, airspeed is 25% off. The plane shows 55% more drag...

Forum: Tech Log

23rd Feb 2010, 00:58

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judging takeoff run acceleration

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Posted By catiamonkey

Emirates wasn't the first to mess up that way....

Emirates wasn't the first to mess up that way. Cases in Canada and the UK come to mind on both Boeing and Airbus. Systems like these have been proposed and made it to the prototype stage. One of the...

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