Airspeed of the aircraft

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Airspeed of the aircraft

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Peter	Peter posted 8/16/2011 9:31:20 AM Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 14, Visits: 63	Tim et al, Congrats for the SkyDemon planner, which is just... great! A helpful addition would be to provide the user with a choice of whether the IAS or the TAS is specified into the aircraft specs data. Today it is only IAS, and some/many aircraft provide rather TAS in their POH. A manual conversion is not that difficult but prone to errors; hence this choice would be appreciated in a future release. Peter
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*stevelup*	*stevelup* posted 8/16/2011 10:41:11 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Moderators Posts: 593, Visits: 4.9K	Hi IAS = TAS at MSL so it doesn't matter does it?
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Peter	Peter posted 8/19/2011 8:15:18 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 14, Visits: 63	No, it does really not as long as you fly at sea level. If you prefer to fly high or in mountains, you might be interested to plan your TAS because every 1000 ft additional altitude the difference between IAS and TAS increases by roughly 2%, which can finally be a lot and impact your time and fuel planning. P.
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