Yep, after Chinese ATC refused a requested WX deviation
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2015/06/30/hail-pummels-delta-747-over-china-nwas-spirit-of.html
I'm aware of the effect of wind gradient and therefore a potential loss of IAS when descending into ground effect.
But from which windspeed would you even consider a HW correction factor?
My question is (partially) why bother?
Vref 104 in a no-wind is a GS of 104 and you're landing distance is taken from the table, let's say 2850'.
Now you have a 10 kts HW with no correction on Vref your GS is 94 and your landing distance will be less then 2850', increasing your safety margin...
In almost 2 years of flying a CJ2 I've only ever encountered one pilot applying a headwind correction to Vref :erm: and his background is the Regionals so that's probably where he picked it up.
Does it even make sense to do it for a CJ2 with a MLW of 11,500lbs?
What say you...yea or nea
My company is looking into it.
Any way you can get me some more info, maybe even a copy of a letter of approval?
Our POI lives in the stone ages so we have some convincing to do.
Toss up between posting this on the 135 sub forum or here.
We all know the testing requirement of 135.293(a)(1) and (4)-(8)
I know CTS is '135 approved' but specifically is there many company that has managed to get the testing portion of CTS approved?
So that it is approved to take the place...
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