RE: Flight Performance Calculation...

["Gregory W. Ratcliff" <gwr@edaind.com>]

This is a great idea, and to this it seems
that (at least for me) the cost of the flight
between two points is another tough problem.

Here in Columbus, Ohio we have two clubs and
20 planes, some are based on tach time, others
hobbs time, a serious N x N problem to determine
which plane to take based on cost and winds.

In general I just get the 210 because it's the most
fun <grin>.

Greg Ratcliff
nz8r on the air
N1697X in the air


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-linux-aviation@humbolt.geo.uu.nl
[mailto:owner-linux-aviation@humbolt.geo.uu.nl]On Behalf Of Frederic
Woodbridge
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 5:47 PM
To: linux-aviation@humbolt.geo.uu.nl
Subject: Flight Performance Calculation...


As per "root"'s request to furnish a little more info.:

Well, I've been collecting a whole bunch of data on piloting for maximum
performance (including a book by Lewis Bjork by that name, btw) and I aim
to put it on a site somewhere. I have and am also collecting performance tips.

I've been reading Von Mises' Theory of Flight (ugh, the differential 
equations are enough to drive Einstein crazy) and tomorrow, I'm receiving
the newest book by Dr. John Lowry titled "Performance of Light Aircraft"
in which he details his Bootstrap Method of determining flight performance
and involves actual flight testing to generate 9 numbers which when plugged
into clearly defined equations will give you the aircraft's V speeds (the 
POH only gives you, as I'm sure you all already know, the V speeds of an
aircraft at gross weight) at whatever weight and altitude you happen to be
at.

I'd like to be able to gather all this information into some sort of database
or spreadsheet that will run on Linux-based machines and voila!  

That voila was a little too easy to say.  I'm sure it won't be easy but
that's what I'm aiming to do.  

Any tips, resources on the net, etc. that we all could talk about,  or that 
you could point me to, great!

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