Circling Approach Minimums - Descent Rate Constraint

Peter Grey
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Re: Circling Approach Minimums - Descent Rate Constraint

Post by Peter Grey »

That I imagine depends on the helicopter. To solve this we would need a helicopter, some clouds, and some money. I have 1 of the three (it's a cloudy day in Georgia). However luckily the airforce has this one covered...

http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10. ... 2.0.CO%3B2

The summary is that the adiabatic downforce wins and the cloud will dissipate and that it is pretty dangerous for the helicopter.

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Re: Circling Approach Minimums - Descent Rate Constraint

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