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CFI oral intel
Michael Ash wrote in
: In rec.aviation.student Gezellig wrote: Michael Ash pretended : In rec.aviation.student Gezellig wrote: On Fri, 30 May 2008 01:20:04 -0500, Michael Ash wrote: Joking aside, if your straps were loose enough that you could slump forward, that *would* affect your CG which would in turn affect your trimmed airspeed. There's another issue that I just thought of that I don't think anyone has mentioned yet, though. Won't you get into a graveyard (bad terminology for this scenario, as you're already dead) spiral? After all, if you could stay straight and level just by taking your hands off the controls you wouldn't need to fear IMC with no gyroscopic instruments. So it seems that if you start high enough, the correct answer to this question would be whatever the terminal velocity of your fuselage is without its wings. Am I off base here? You fly until gassless, stall, nose down, then descend too rapidly, striking the ground with the wings ripped off. Works for me. You don't stall, because when the engine quits the airplane will start to descend, maintaining approximately the original airspeed. At what point do you expect to lose the wings via "the correct answer to this question would be whatever the terminal velocity of your fuselage is without its wings."? If you enter a spiral dive as I surmised, the wings fall off either when you exceed Vne or when you exceed the maximum loading the wings can support, whichever comes first. However it would seem that whether this happens or not will depend on the airplane in question. Well, the wings won't come off as you exceed VNE. You have a good 10% on top of that before anything will happen. Something nasty will at the load limit, though. Not the published one, of course, but at 50% over that. At the published load limit you are guarunteed that the airplane will not permanently deform. 50% over that you're guaunteed it will remain in one piece. Over that you're on your own. It;s not quite as tidy as all that, though and with most light planes it's probably flutter that's going to pull it apart and that will probably be brought on by a combination of load and speed. This is not to say it's safe to operate at or near the red line or load limit. It isn't. Bertie |
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