Climb Rates?

[46Driver]

Just curious to know about the other aircraft's climb rates.
We took the duty at Fredericton today and the controller gave us cleared to 26,000. I started the stopwatch as the throttles were advanced and recorded the following:
10,000 ft @ 2:58
18,000 ft @ 5:40
20,000 ft @ 6:55
25,000 ft @ 9:23

The following conditions applied:
1) takeoff weight was 29,000 lbs (Dornier empty weight is 21,300 and Dornier max takeoff weight is 34,500)
2) altimeter of 30.43 (that cost us 500 ft going through FL180)
3) OAT of -8 C
4) standard profile flown of 190 knots to 3,000
250 knots to 10,000
265 knots/.55M above 10,000

And yes, I know we are slow in level flight .66M/300knots with bird strikes from the rear. Just curious about other aircraft.

 

[Typhoon1244]

Boy, were you bored!


(Just kidding. I've done that too...although I didn't keep that good a record.)

 

[46Driver]

Boy, were you bored! .)

You have no idea....... Would you also like to know that the magenta display on the FMS skips .9 and .4 as it measures distance to target? (Must be some kind of metric to English conversion is the best guess I've heard.)

I'll be glad to strap back into the helo this week!

 

[fr0g]

Cessna 172:

10,000 ft @ quite a while
18,000 ft @ only in an updraft
20,000 ft @ never
25,000 ft @ not in a million years

These test were done at an OAT of -2 degrees centigrade, with a average lapse rate of 2.5 degrees/1000 feet. Average barometric pressure was 29.94 in. hg, and best rate of climb (Vy) was maintained throughout the climb. Engine was operated at maximum power, with a fuel mixture setting of 50 degrees rich of peak. Takeoff gross weight: 2000 lbs. Average fuel burn: 7.4 gal/hr.

now you all know what's it's like to fly the mighty 172
(sorry.. it's late and I'm bored)

 

[avbug]

Climb in a Lear 24D: 6,000-12,000 fpm (empty, initial). Turn downwind after takeoff at 18,000'.

Climb in a Cheyenne II: 2,000 fpm.

Climb in a Cessna 310: 1,500 fpm.

Climb in a Cessna 172: 500 fpm.

Climb in a PB4Y-2: Priceless.

(only aircraft I've flown in which an engine failure at V1 with an emergency dump and return for landing netted a call to crash rescue when we couldn't climb high enough to be seen from the airport, on the downwind...or in which a normal takeoff required both crewmembers looking for television antennas on folks houses. And one of the few four engine aircraft for which power lines are a real issue...for most of the flight).

I loved that airplane.

 

[banned username 2]

My best was in a Lear 35, very lightly loaded, no pax, cold day...

1:58 after brake release I was at 18,000ft doing 250 KIAS...

Took off from a 600 MSL airport

 

[Vector4fun]

10,000 ft @ 2:58

If it was a BAC146 in summer, I'd say two hours and fifty eight minutes to 10,000' is about right!

 

[mar]

The lowest and loudest

DC6
100,000#

OAT +20C Climb to 10,000
About 40 minutes
300 fpm
VFR climb thru 4000 to avoid vectoring.

OAT -20C Climb to 10,000
About 20 minutes
600 fpm

Fly safe.

 

[Weasil]

PC9

Pilatus PC9 - best climb rate I ever got in a propellor a/c.
At light weights could reach 3500-4000'/min (ISA)

 

[DC-3TP]

Climb in a T-38

If memory serves me. Climb is about 27,000 feet per min in full AB. Climb starts out at 350 KIAS to 10,000 then accelerate to .9 there after. Other military aircraft probably beat that by a bunch. Even when the climb is done at mil power the vsi is pegged at 6000 fpm. I remember that if you are climbing at .9 mach and holding 10 degrees nose high, you will be climbing at 9000 fpm.

 

[Typhoon1244]

I once saw the C.A.F.'s B-26 Marauder--I think her name was Carolyn--take off from TYS. When she went out of sight, perhaps ten miles out, she was still down around 1,000 feet and clawing for more.

 

[avbug]

Sure, if you want to do it the easy way.

How about coming down? 11,000-22,000 fpm in relaxing freefall from FL180 in a tee shirt, sandals, and lots of fresh air. Much better than riding the airplane down with a low experience wet behind the ears kid driving like he's God of the Vomit Commet.

Safer, too. What goes up, must come down. (except inflation)

 

[bart]

Heck, even under canopy a good front riser turn can give you 4 to 6000 fpm... down.

 

[kevdog]

HOOK IT!!

 

[bart]

Good idea, maybe next time you will get caught down in the "corner"...

Blue Skies, Black Death

 

[kevdog]

Sorry, that doesn't happen.

 

[Cpt. Underpants]

An F1 Team Rocket will hit 10 000' in 1 min 50 secs.

Mind-Boggling performance in a stunning aircraft. Will can a PC-9 in everything except top speed, then only by 20 kts (at 1/4 of the fuel burn and 1/20 of the price)

 

[avbug]

Hook turns? Do enough of them, and it WILL happen. Bank on it. These have always been a bad idea, and always will be. Testosterone does not make up for common sense.

 

[banned username 2]

Testosterone does not make up for common sense.

Now THAT is a D@MN good quote!

 

[kevdog]

Hook turns? Do enough of them, and it WILL happen. Bank on it. These have always been a bad idea, and always will be. Testosterone does not make up for common sense.

I do not know your skydiving experience or skill, but not too many pilots think of skydiving as having any "common sense."

just my .02 cents