The Use of a Computer to Obtain Flight Manual Data.

Abstract

The one thing among many that must be prepared for every flight is the making of a flight plan. Pilots must use charts or graphs from the flight manual to compute the fuel flow that is essential to flight plan. Since this requires many steps of interpolation to compute the specific conditions that cannot be read directly from flight manual, it is time consuming and increases the probability of making a mistake. This problem obstructs the execution of various mission changes and continuous sorties. A computer program for personal computer or hand-held calculator is developed to compute the desired fuel flow by modifying the equations for an 'IDEAL' airplane. Keywords: Theses; Total drag; Thrust; Flight planning. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA176741

Entities

People

  • Chang W. Oh

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Airplanes
  • Altitude
  • Base Lines
  • Carbonate Esters
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Flow Rate
  • Fuel Consumption
  • Jet Aircraft
  • Mach Number
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Sea Level
  • Turbojet Engines

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Regression Analysis.