Wednesday, December 21, 2011

TAKE OFF FROM SYDNEY









Taking off from Sydney, with a lot of cargo beside normal full load of passengers , mainly chilled meat and fruits from Australia. Maximum weight for take off for the Airbus A340 is 380,000 kg, 380 tons for short. This is how the take off speed calculated, using the LPCNG or the Less Paper Cockpit Next generation. The application is installed in each one of the pilots' laptop.

Start with the ops status, with the aircraft type, registration, the flight number and the route pairing. SYD to AUH in this case.

Next, the environmental data is input, such as the runway in use, 16R for take off in Sydney at that time, the wind, temperature,runway condition and the take off weight.


And, the computer computed the take off data such as the speeds, take off run, flap configuration, ASDA and etc..
The pilot will 'rotate' i e start to pitch the nose up for lift off at 170 knot, or 315 km/h.. and the take off run is 3.8 km . Runway length is 3.96 km only... very small room for error.




V1 : the speed beyond which if one engine failed, the take off should be continued because the runway length available is not sufficient to bring the plane to a complete stop.
VR : rotation speed, as explained above.
V2 : safety speed. The speed at which the plane will be fully controllable even if one engine fail and can climb safely.

4 comments:

The Cockpit Diaries said...

Capt, What is Vmu(AEO) for? Tak pernah dgr..VTire tu sama dgn VMBE ke?

ashburn said...

Vmu (AEO) minimum unstick speed
Boeing guna VRmin kot... kan kalau kita compute performance ada min and max VR range..
One Engine Out, OEO
All Engine Out, AEO
yup, Vtire sama dgn VMBE atau Tire speed limit.
Saja airbus nak lain dari boeing, bagi org confuse jer..hehe

ashburn said...

sorry , AEO, all engine operating.
OEI, one engine out..

Vtire to tire limit speed, tak sama dgn VMBE, max brake energy speed.

dah karat dah, haha

The Cockpit Diaries said...

Oh hehe..Thx for the Info capt..

Untuk T/o shift pula?