As I come into an airport, we are usually at cruise altitude. A typical problem that I do is…if I am at 37,000 feet and the airport elevation is 2,300 msl (msl = mean sea level), I have to plan a descent based on descending 1,000 feet for every 2 ½ miles (remember a nautical mile is 6,000 feet). How many miles out would I have to start my descent at this particular airport.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Let's Do Some Math Again
As I come into an airport, we are usually at cruise altitude. A typical problem that I do is…if I am at 37,000 feet and the airport elevation is 2,300 msl (msl = mean sea level), I have to plan a descent based on descending 1,000 feet for every 2 ½ miles (remember a nautical mile is 6,000 feet). How many miles out would I have to start my descent at this particular airport.
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4 comments:
Wow these questions are hard!:)
How do you come up with such hard questions!!
this one is hard!
chris L <(^_^<)
YIEEEE THIS is rlly hard
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