EMAE 381 Flight Info
Posted by Nicole Sharp on 17 September 2005 at 21:15
The following is the information from our flight test on 10 September 2005.
All altitudes are listed with respect to sea level. Note that OSU's airport is 905 ft above sea level. When some information is missing from individual entries, this means that we lack that information. Photographs from the flight, including general aerial shots, are available here. Feel free to download them.
- Take-Off
- 19.6 sec
- ~700 ft ground roll
- Weight: 2362 lbs
- Immediate Climb Out
- Altitude: 1325 ft
- Vertical Speed: 650 ft/min
- Airspeed: 70 knots
- RPM: 2300
- Pitch: 10 degrees above horizon
- Roll: 0 degrees
- Banking Turn While Climbing
- Altitude: 1525 ft
- Vertical Speed: 500 ft/min
- Airspeed: 71 knots
- RPM: 2300
- Pitch: 10 degrees above horizon
- Roll: 5 degrees right
- In Climb
- Altitude: 2310 ft
- Vertical Speed: 750 ft/min
- Airspeed: 75 knots
- RPM: 2300
- Pitch: 10 degrees above horizon
- Roll: 0 degrees
- Level Flight
- Altitude: 3000 ft
- Vertical Speed: 0 ft/min
- Airspeed: 95 knots
- RPM: 2250
- Pitch: 0 degrees above horizon
- Roll: 0 degrees
- Level Flight
- Altitude: 3000 ft
- Vertical Speed: 0 ft/min
- Airspeed: 98 knots
- RPM: 2300
- Pitch: 0 degrees above horizon
- Roll: 0 degrees
- Minimum Controllable Airspeed
- Altitude: 2950 ft
- Vertical Speed: -30 ft/min
- Airspeed: 35 knots
- RPM: 1900
- Pitch: 10 degrees above horizon
- Roll: 0 degrees
- Flaps: 30 degrees
- Climbing
- Altitude: 3950 ft
- Vertical Speed: 110 ft/min
- Airspeed: 87 knots
- RPM: 2250
- Pitch: 1 degree above horizon
- Roll: 0 degrees
- Phugoid 1 Measurement 1
- Altitude: 4050 ft
- Vertical Speed: 890 ft/min
- Airspeed: 80 knots
- RPM: 2200
- Pitch: 15 degrees above horizon
- Roll: 0 degrees
- Estimated 31 seconds between peaks
- Phugoid 1 Measurement 2
- Altitude: 4150 ft
- Vertical Speed: 800 ft/min
- Airspeed: 82 knots
- RPM: 2200
- Pitch: 10 degrees above horizon
- Roll: 0 degrees
- Phugoid 1 Measurement 3
- Altitude: 3950ft
- Vertical Speed: 200 ft/min
- Phugoid 2 Measurement 1
- Altitude: 4100 ft
- Vertical Speed: 1200 ft/min
- Airspeed: 80 knots
- RPM: 2000
- Pitch: 10 degrees above horizon
- Roll: 5 degrees right
- Estimated 22 seconds peak to peak
- Phugoid 2 Measurement 2
- Altitude: 3900 ft
- Vertical Speed: -1300 ft/min
- RPM: 2300
- Pitch: 10 degrees below horizon
- Roll: 0 degrees
- Phugoid 2 Measurement 3
- Altitude: 3950 ft
- Vertical Speed: 900 ft/min
- RPM: 2100
- Pitch: 8 degrees above horizon
- Roll: 0 degrees
- Stall 1
- Vertical Speed: 150 ft/min
- RPM: 750
- No flaps
- Stall 2
- Altitude: 3950 ft
- Vertical Speed: 200 ft/min
- Airspeed: 35 knots
- RPM: > 1000
- Pitch: 12 degrees above horizon
- Roll: 5 degrees left
- No flaps
- Stall 3
- Altitude: 3925 ft
- Vertical Speed: 0 ft/min
- Airspeed: 35 knots
- Pitch: 5 degrees below horizon
- Roll: 5 degrees right
- Flaps: at 30 degrees
- Banked Turn
- Altitude: 3710 ft
- Vertical Speed: 200 ft/min
- Airspeed: 90 knots
- RPM: 2150
- Pitch: 0 degrees above horizon
- Roll: 30 degrees right
- Adverse Yaw
- Altitude: 3660 ft
- Vertical Speed: 50 ft/min
- Airspeed: 95 knots
- RPM: 2200
- Pitch: 2 degrees above horizon
- Roll: 27 degrees left
- Glide 1 Measurement 1
- Altitude: 3350 ft
- Vertical Speed: -400 ft/min
- Airspeed: 80 knots
- RPM: 1000
- Pitch: 2 degrees below horizon
- Roll: 0 degrees
- Glide 1 Measurement 2
- Altitude: 3150 ft
- Vertical Speed: -650 ft/min
- Airspeed: 80 knots
- Glide 2 Measurement 1
- Altitude: 2950 ft
- Vertical Speed: -425 ft/min
- Airspeed: 65 knots
- RPM: 900
- Pitch: 2 degrees above horizon
- Roll: 0 degrees
- Glide 2 Measurement 2
- Altitude: 2750 ft
- Airspeed: 55 knots
- Pitch: 5 degrees above horizon
- Landing Measurement 1
- Altitude: 1150 ft
- Vertical Speed: -650 ft/min
- Airspeed: 65 knots
- Pitch: 7 degrees above horizon
- Flaps: at 30 degrees
- Landing Measurement 2
- Altitude: 920 ft
- Vertical Speed: -700 ft/min
- Airspeed: 67 knots
- RPM: 900
- Pitch: 7 degrees above horizon
- Flaps: at 30 degrees
- Landing Ground Roll
- 25 sec
- ~1000 ft
- Light braking by pilot