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> one thousand feet above Are the imperial units of measurement an aviation thing, or an American thing, or a bit of both?
You'll hear them referred to as Flight Levels or Angels as well (Angel 15 == 15,000feet).
> one thousand feet above Are the imperial units of measurement an aviation thing, or an American thing, or a bit of both?
> one thousand feet above Are the imperial units of measurement an aviation thing, or an American thing, or a bit of both?
EDIT: ahahaha <3 HN commenters
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why does the landing weight effect the air it displaces?
Not displacement (volume), but pressure from velocity: lift. The amount of lift by definition has to equal the weight of the aircraft at 1G.
Big problem is the use of autopilot navigation locked to the GPS route.. this pretty much guarantees that you will fly right below the wake of the above plane on the same route! (Before GPS it will be very odd to flight exactly the same path) ..
Big problem is the use of autopilot navigation locked to the GPS route.. this pretty much guarantees that you will fly right below the wake of the above plane on the same route! (Before GPS it will be very odd to flight exactly the same path) ..
Few years ago, an embraer actually cut another's plane wing off for the exact same reason. (They were flying at the wrong altitude though)
There's also an episode ("Phantom Strike") of the TV series Mayday about the incident; it's probably on youtube.
> one thousand feet above Are the imperial units of measurement an aviation thing, or an American thing, or a bit of both?
The physics of this are insane. Then again, by my calculation the A380 displaces roughly 11 million cubic feet of air per second at the max landing weight.