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Glide Ratio of a King Air?
See:http://www.greenvilleonline.com/arti...EWS/311150009/
Pilot-says-plane-became-glider-after-it-ran-out-of-gas Greenville last Monday. Wings look pretty skinny.Engines look real big. He credits his glider training. Why not require glider ratings for every ATP? Karen |
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Glide Ratio of a King Air?
Recurrent training with some focus on boring things like pre-flight
inspections, fuel management, and in this case some reviews of flight line operations procedures would probably be more worthwhile. Darryl On Nov 15, 9:41*am, Karen wrote: See:http://www.greenvilleonline.com/arti...EWS/311150009/ Pilot-says-plane-became-glider-after-it-ran-out-of-gas Greenville last Monday. Wings look pretty skinny.Engines look real big. He credits his glider training. Why not require glider ratings for every ATP? Karen |
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Glide Ratio of a King Air?
On Nov 15, 10:41*am, Karen wrote:
See:http://www.greenvilleonline.com/arti...EWS/311150009/ Pilot-says-plane-became-glider-after-it-ran-out-of-gas Greenville last Monday. Wings look pretty skinny.Engines look real big. He credits his glider training. Why not require glider ratings for every ATP? Karen I wasn't there, but unless something truly abnormal happened to the airplane, it's a pretty safe bet that poor planning and bad decision making led to this incident. It is this same thought process you read about in many of the glider accidents. Poor planning, poor decision making, and poor saftey management resulting in a wrecked glider. The best training and skill set will not overcome bad mental habits. Mike |
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Glide Ratio of a King Air?
Other than the obvious poor planning.... A King Air has a pretty decent L/D once the props are feathered. Don't feather and it does come down, like right now. Depending on the model, L/D of King Air series can be anywhere from 13/1 up to about 17/1. We could feather both on a KA90 (engines can still be running with feathered props), slow to best L/D speed of around 110 knots, and the sink would settle around 800fpm. Drop gear and approach flaps and sink would go to about 12-1300fpm. If you unfeathered the props then, sink could increase 4-5000 fpm, kind of like a 20 with full flaps and spoilers... The longer wing 200 series was actually better than a 90.... Ah, the old days.... Steve |
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