I reach about 740 knots at 40000 feet. That are about 380 m/s. At sea level, sonic speed is about 340 m/s. I know, that sonic speeds decreases depending on air pressure an temperature. I didn't know, that it decreases that much. Does it mean, that the sonic speed at 40000 feet is about 190 m/s?
Regards Bernhard Am Sonntag 26 Juni 2005 13:14 schrieb Erik Hofman: > Bernhard Auzinger wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > when flying the f16 in a dive with full thrust, the elevator begins to > > bounce up and down at about 800 knots. But why? Is it the fly-by-wire > > system of the f16, which is holding the a/c in a stable flight attitude? > > Or is it a failure in the Model? > > It is the fly-by-wire logic that might need some more fine tuning, > although it only happens in over-speed situations. So it might actually > happen in real also ... > > > I read about the f16, that it can reach Mach 2 in a straightforward > > flight. But how could I reach Mach 2? The maximum I reach is about 750 > > knots (~sonic speed). Did I get something wrong in this case? > > It can reach Mach 2.0 at 40,000 feet only. Our model does that as well. > > Erik > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
