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From: normb@tekred.UUCP (Norm Babcock )
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: ROC
Message-ID: <325@tekred.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Apr-85 20:34:54 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 17 20:34:54 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Apr-85 00:21:25 EST
Organization: Tektronix, Redmond OR
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After reviewing the C-152 handbook, the significance of the
heading of the table I get rate-of-climb, fuel, distance, etc.,
from for various altitudes, hit me. The heading is for MAXIMUM
rate of climb. Even though I make a stab at calculating this and
that, correcting for temp, the actual performance is always less.

I figured out then,(or remembered), that I don't like the deck
angle at max climb, and always lower the nose for better visibility
and cooling. My question is: is there a correction factor which
works for different climb speeds? Is climb performance linear with
speed? ROC would decrease, fuel would increase, time to TOC would
increase, as would distance to TOC. Or does one have to play test
pilot and make new tables?

I realize a lot of pilots gas and go; and I do also, but sometimes
I like to do a precision nav flight just for kicks. I would like to
get a little better at forecasting a/c performance.

Any ideas?

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