| From: | David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG> |
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| Subject: | Re: Rigger Book 2 |
| Date: | Wed, 24 Dec 1997 07:12:43 -0700 |
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/ Would you please be more specific as to what, specifically, was wrong? I know
/ there have been a few typographical errors in some of the examples, but what
/ else did you see as wrong? Were there conceptual errors? An improper modeling
/ of some real-world examples?
I've got one :)
The aircraft take-off and landing distances work, but they're not
really accurate. A plane's take-off distance is determined by it's
take-off speed and it's acceleration. So if a plane had a take-off
speed of 80m/turn and an acceleration of 20m/turn it would take 4
turns to reach take-off speed after traveling 200m. The landing
roll-out is determined by it's landing speed and it's deceleration in
the same fashion. The complications, which you successfuly dodged
:), are that planes have several listed take-off and landing speeds
depending on thier profile (no load, standard load, maximum load,
flaps extended). And wind speed and direction changes it to.
Anyway, like I said the rules work as is :) just wanted to stand up
on my soap box and rant for a bit ;)
-David
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Art is knowing which ones to keep."
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