Re: Quick Crosswind Calculation

On Jan 5, 12:27 pm, Dudley Henriques <dhenriq...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques <dhenriq...@xxxxxxx> wrote in
news:ZoidnZJIJ_w_fOLanZ2dnUVZ_oimnZ2d@xxxxxxx:

Oh, and BTW, I can vouch personally for the fact that ole' Bertie
knows his way around a cockpit :-))

Wait a sec. Ken's already proven you;re not a pilot so that makes your
endorsement useless!

Bertie

By God you're right! I must find out how to sign him on as an
instructor. It isn't every day we get the chance to fly with a CFI who
advocates teaching Calculus in ground school!!! There must be literally
hundreds of everyday type folks out here who are simply learning to fly
the "regular way" who would break down the door to get into a ground
school where they had to become competent in Calculus to pass the written.
By God, I do believe ole' Ken here just might be the long lost key to
straightening out the entire flight instruction training curriculum.
Lord only knows I've been trying to straighten it out for 50 years and I
haven't managed to make a dent in it yet :-)
Dudley Henriques

I respect the sarcasm, ( I learned calculus to do
rocketry ballistics, and when it worked it was a
wowzer moment for me, so I learned more ).

Calculus is mostly about rates of change.
In piloting, at the landing flare, when the AoA
is varying positvely, with elevator feedback,
with slightly negative rate of climb, and a nice
stall inches above the runway, is real sweet.
Ken

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