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Aircraft performance: take-off, climb and landing

Performance class A, take-off speeds and distances, runway condition, reduced thrust, obstacle clearance, drift-down and landing distance, under ICAO, EASA and FAA rules

By Aerospace Garage Desk · Practitioner · 40 minutes · 24 narrated pages

What you will be able to do

  • ✓ Explain the purpose of performance class A rules and calculate pressure and density altitude and their effect on take-off and landing.
  • ✓ Define the take-off speeds from VMCG to V2, the limits that bound V1, and why the go or stop decision is made before V1.
  • ✓ Check take-off distances against TORA, TODA and ASDA, applying clearway, stopway, line-up, wind, slope and runway condition corrections.
  • ✓ Interpret runway condition codes under the Global Reporting Format and decide when assumed-temperature or derated thrust may be used.
  • ✓ Calculate dispatch landing distances with the 1.67 and 1.43 factors and the wet increment, and carry out a landing distance check at time of arrival.
  • ✓ Apply net take-off flight path, obstacle clearance and drift-down requirements, and recognise performance tool errors using the findings on Southwest Airlines Flight 1248.

Course content

Session 1 · Performance foundations: rules, roles and the air

1.1

  1. Why performance rules exist · free preview
  2. Who produces performance data, and who uses it
  3. The air you fly in: pressure, temperature and density altitude
  4. Worked example: density altitude at a hot, high aerodrome
Session 2 · Take-off speeds and the go or stop decision

1.2

  1. The take-off speeds and what each one protects
  2. V1: a limit, not a target
  3. What bounds V1 and V2
  4. Worked example: checking a speed set and a brake energy limit
Session 3 · Take-off distances and the runway you really have

1.3

  1. Declared distances: TORA, TODA, ASDA and LDA
  2. Accelerate-stop, accelerate-go and the balanced field
  3. Wind, slope, line-up and mass
  4. Worked example: an accelerate-stop check against ASDA
Session 4 · Runway condition and reduced take-off thrust

1.4

  1. Wet and contaminated runways
  2. The Global Reporting Format and runway condition codes
  3. Assumed temperature and derated thrust
  4. Worked example: an assumed-temperature decision
Session 5 · Landing distance: dispatch and time of arrival

1.5

  1. Certified landing distance and dispatch factors
  2. Wet and contaminated runways at dispatch
  3. Landing distance at time of arrival
  4. Worked example: landing distance required at dispatch and on arrival
Session 6 · Climb-out, en route engine failure and performance errors

1.6

  1. The take-off flight path and obstacle clearance
  2. En route with an engine out: drift-down
  3. Performance tools, hidden assumptions and entry errors
  4. From the investigation file: Southwest Airlines Flight 1248

Who this course is for

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