Re:How the pilots of Lion Air Flight 610 lost control
by sk5t on Thursday December 27, 2018 @01:45AM
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In any event, what would be the use of inertia-based calculations, when airspeed (through an atmosphere always changing) is the important more bit to keep the plane in the air?
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Re:How the pilots of Lion Air Flight 610 lost control
by drpixie on Thursday December 27, 2018 @04:47AM
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Aviation does not usually require the precision assumed here. The aircraft would have flown fine anywhere between (say) 150k and 300k, so an initial-nav indication of (say) 250k +/- 20k would tell the crew that things are "close-enough".
More useful at the time would be to set a "sensible" power level and maintain approximate altitude ... and looking out the window is usually helpful!