What is tire creep, and is it important?
What is tire creep, and is it important?
Tire creep is the tendency of the tire to rotate slowly around the wheel hub as a result of a millisecond landing friction on the tire before wheel spin occurs.
Yes, it is important because if there is too much creep the tire can tear out the inflation valve and cause the tire to burst.
How would you explain to your neighbour what the difference is between a precision and a non-precision approach?
How would you explain to your neighbour what the difference is between a precision and a non-precision approach?
A precision approach uses both lateral (from left to right) and vertical guidance. A non-precision approach only uses lateral guidance.
While climbing with a SEP, in what temperature range can carb icing occur?
While climbing with a SEP, in what temperature range can carb icing occur?
Carb icing can occur with temperatures as high 30°C and humidity as low as 50%, but it is more likely when below 20°C and high humidity, especially during low power settings.
Where does the wing stall first on a typical SEP Aircraft (Cessna, Tecnam, ...)?
Where does the wing stall first on a typical SEP Aircraft (Cessna, Tecnam, ...)?
At the wing root. This is a property of rectangular wings, but it's also common to find close to the wing root devices that make it so that the wing root stalls first.
What do the abbreviations TSRA and MIFG mean?
What do the abbreviations TSRA and MIFG mean?
TSRA: Thunderstorm with rain
- MIFG: Shallow fog
What are the benefits of a free turbine?
What are the benefits of a free turbine?
A free turbine is a turbine that is not directly connected to the compressor. This allows the compressor to rotate at a different speed than the turbine. Since the turbine speed is coupled with the propeller, this allows for the propeller to be maintained at a constant ideal speed.
Another advantage is that free turbine engines can be designed to be more compact than their single shaft counterparts
What is convergency?
What is convergency?
Meridians converge from their maximum distance apart (at the equator) to the poles where they meet.
Great circles are the shortest distance between two points and convergency represents the change in direction experienced between those points.
Being an excellent pilot, if I can fly at VMCA, do I need a V2 speed?
Being an excellent pilot, if I can fly at VMCA, do I need a V2 speed?
Yes, for safety you will need a V2 speed.
Explain the Fohn wind.
Explain the Fohn wind.
A Fohn wind is a warm dry wind that blows down the lee side of a mountain.
Initially, the air temperature cools dry-adiabatically (3°C/1000 ft), until its dew point temperature is reached. Condensation occurs as the air is further forced up the mountain range, resulting in the air cooling saturated-adiabatically (generally considered in the mid-latitudes to be 1.8°C/1000 ft). Clouds and precipitation form. When the air mass reaches the top of the mountain range it has lost a significant amount of its water content and so has a much lower dew point temperature.
As the air then begins to descend down the lee slope of the mountain the compressed air is initially heated saturated-adiabatically, and in effect the direct reverse to the cooling effect on the windward side occurs. As the air continues leeward and downward from the mountain range, the air, now no longer saturated, is heated dry-adiabatically.
The resultant wind is dry and warm giving clear conditions at airfields on the lee side of the mountain range.
The Foehn Effect also may be associated with mountain wave activity.
At high altitudes, what speed do aircrafts climb on?
At high altitudes, what speed do aircrafts climb on?
Mach number