[Flightgear-devel] How to compute Takeoff speeds

2004-09-03 Thread Harald JOHNSEN
Ok there is a lot of table of speed vs weight vs flaps position everywhere. I want to compute them and not use any table. And it obvious that tables are the result of some computation. Do you think I can use something like that ? Vr = sqr( W / (0.5 * rho(0) * CL0 * S) ) CL0 is CL-0, rho is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to compute Takeoff speeds

2004-09-03 Thread David Culp
You can only estimate it. Aeromatic uses an estimate like this for the CL of airliners: 0.2 + (4.4 * alpha) + (1.5 * flaps_norm) if you assume a rotation to 10 degrees for lift-off, then alpha is 0.1748 in radians, and the above formula becomes: 0.9678 + (1.5 * flaps_norm) In the case of