Post by +mrfaosfx on Dec 23, 2012 15:32:41 GMT
Hi Rafael:
Seems something in your flight training was non-standard:
Speed, attitude, power and altitude are interrelated. A certain speed can be maintained by attitude and power without altitude change, you can trade speed for altitude or gain speed loosing altitude at the same power setting. Beginners as this tread is talking about are instructed to watch attitude, altitude, speed and power. To climb: raise the nose to say 5 deg and increase power some percents and relief the pressure on the controls by trim. To go down the reverse. You are given a certain speed for optimal climb and one for safe descent. The values depend on the airplane flown.
Think one should not make the beginning of mastering the art of flying more difficult as it already is.
Kind regards
Walter
Perhaps I worded it wrong but I pointed out the basic concept. I do know if I wanted to maintain 100knots at FL035 I would adjust my throttle and pitch attitude accordingly to maintain it. Again it all depends on the aircraft and the power setting you are using it, it produces different results at different altitudes.
If I was flying level at 3000ft and applied power the aircraft would want to start climbing, to counter-act this I would gradually adjust the trim setting to prevent it from starting a climb, it would obviously result in more nose down pitch and if I removed power, I would have to pitch up more to maintain that altitude.
But my instructor always told me, PITCH is AIRSPEED, POWER is ALTITUDE do you see where I am going with this? If you want to CLIMB you need to APPLY POWER and if you want to descend you need to REMOVE POWER. The way you explained it, points out exactly my point. If you were traveling at 100knots in a little cessna 172 and decided to descend, you don't do it by pushing the nose down, you remove power and you let it descend, pitching down will result in an increase in airspeed, it is the same if you wanted to climb, if you pitched up you would begin to LOOSE airspeed slowly unless you applied more power which brings out my point again, you need power to climb.
With so many different operating procedures on so many aircraft its easy to make assumptions, they don't all behave the same.
The A340 for example is one such aircraft that is recommended to be flown manually up to FL150 with an specific power setting set and maintaining the climb IAS provided by the FMC .... most simmers when they take off, just engage the autopilot and climb at 1,800ft/min not in REAL LIFE ... in REAL LIFE you climb at a certain power setting and IAS, so your ft/min could go as high as 3000-5000ft per minute, you reach cruising altitude faster.
I have not flown in a long time, so I'm probably rusty if I touched the controls. Flight Sim is not the same as real life, what I found when I applied my flight sim training to real life on my second lesson is that cessnas don't want to stop flying...you pull up even a little bit and that birdy is going back up into the air like a feather...in flight sim, everything is rigid and not as responsive prob. because most of us run sim at a slide show setting of 8 fps for FSX which, is ridiculous to say the least and then 25 the most for FS2004 ... if the perfomance update graphic wise was faster, you can truly feel the difference!