Need a Little Help Please "Flight Planning"

[Tooloe]

ok I'm at that point in my class's and training that we are planing cross country flights. My question is how do you figure out Top of climb speeds? I can't find it in my books to save my life. i've got my wind correstion angle on my E6B but where do i go from there? please help make this easier lol thanks in advance guys

[shdw]

On the time/fuel/distance to climb chart usually in the first 10 pages of section 5 of your POH will have the various airspeeds depending on the altitude. Use the airspeed between your starting and finishing altitude IE if you are departing at sea level to 6,000 feet, the average airspeed you will fly will occur at 3,000 feet.

For your cruise speeds look at the cruise performance charts, everything you need is in section 5 of your POH. I suggest reading that section in its entirety. Good luck post if you need more info.

[tgrayson]

Originally Posted by Tooloe

ok I'm at that point in my class's and training that we are planing cross country flights. My question is how do you figure out Top of climb speeds? I can't find it in my books to save my life. i've got my wind correstion angle on my E6B but where do i go from there? please help make this easier lol thanks in advance guys

I'm not sure what you're asking. Are you asking for the airspeeds to use throughout your climb profile? Are you asking how fast you can get to top of climb? Are you asking about climb rates? Are you asking about groundspeeds throughout the climb?

[Tooloe]

Originally Posted by shdw

On the time/fuel/distance to climb chart usually in the first 10 pages of section 5 of your POH will have the various airspeeds depending on the altitude. Use the airspeed between your starting and finishing altitude IE if you are departing at sea level to 6,000 feet, the average airspeed you will fly will occur at 3,000 feet.

For your cruise speeds look at the cruise performance charts, everything you need is in section 5 of your POH. I suggest reading that section in its entirety. Good luck post if you need more info.

ok that sheds a little light thank you very much!

Originally Posted by tgrayson

I'm not sure what you're asking. Are you asking for the airspeeds to use throughout your climb profile? Are you asking how fast you can get to top of climb? Are you asking about climb rates? Are you asking about ground speeds throughout the climb?

I'm sorry that i didn't make it clear. Thats my fault.... i should have asked what information do i need to get my climb rate and speed. I hope that made sense i really need to ace this test! lol.. this E6B is hard to get used to but when you start figuring it out it's pretty simple! lol thanks guys... if anyone else would like to post some more info i would grateful! thanks again fellas!

[Mike H]

Climb rate, airspeeds, time & distance to climb will be in the performance section of the POH.

Oh, and when you get the E6B figured out, that'll make one of us who has

[tgrayson]

Originally Posted by Tooloe

i should have asked what information do i need to get my climb rate and speed.

What airplane are you flying? Make, Model, Year? Older airplanes have very little of that info available.

[shdw]

Originally Posted by Tooloe

I'm sorry that i didn't make it clear. Thats my fault.... i should have asked what information do i need to get my climb rate and speed. I hope that made sense i really need to ace this test! lol.. this E6B is hard to get used to but when you start figuring it out it's pretty simple! lol thanks guys... if anyone else would like to post some more info i would grateful! thanks again fellas!

You don't need rate of climb. What you need to do is find the runway heading you depart from, your winds at the altitude you plan to level at cruise, winds at the surface, calibrated airspeed chart (beginning of section 5) and the time/fuel/distance to climb chart.

Interpolate winds: take the winds on the surface winds and the winds aloft and interpolate for the average during your climb.

Interpolate IAS from chart: as described in my previous post.

Find TAS: Use CAS chart to find calibrated speed than your E6B to find TAS.

Find Ground Speed/Wind Correction Angle: Using the wind side of your E6B, with the departure heading, the winds you calculated, and the TAS you figured out to find the ground speed and the wind correction angle.

Use Time/Fuel: From your time fuel and distance to climb chart you can use the time to climb and the fuel to climb. Since fuel is a function of time and power setting it will remain unchanged. However, distance will be effected by your ground speed. If you had no wind you could use the charted distance, since days like this are rare you must figure out your distance.

Figure out distance: Using the time from the chart and the ground speed you figured out, plug both into your E6B and you have a distance.

Complete! Questions?