Website: material added to the tutorials

[John Brandon]

I have made some substantial additions to a few of the tutorial modules; The general theme of the changes follows the design manoeuvring flight envelope, the gust envelope, flight load limits, turbulence and vertical gusts, excessive speed, the speed to fly in turbulence and the V-speeds in general. I believe all this safety oriented material is well worth reading.

 

The modules concerned are:

 

'Airspeeds and the properties of air' http://www.recreationalflying.com/tutorials/groundschool/umodule2.html; 114 kbytes; chiefly sections 2.9 and 2.10.

 

'Microscale meteorology and atmospheric hazards' http://www.recreationalflying.com/tutorials/groundschool/umodule21.html; 70 kbytes; additions in most sections.

 

'Wind shear and turbulence' http://www.recreationalflying.com/tutorials/safety/wind_shear.html; 61 kbytes; additions in all sections but particularly 6.4.

 

'Don't fly real fast!' http://www.recreationalflying.com/tutorials/safety/excess_speed2.html; 46 kbytes; additions in all sections, particularly 1.1.

 

'Safety: flight at excessive speed' http://www.recreationalflying.com/tutorials/groundschool/flutter.html; 43 kbytes; smaller additions in all sections. This module shares some material with the preceding module.

 

cheers

 

John Brandon

 

 

[djpacro]

Great stuff, thanks John.

 

 

[Guest davidh10]

Thanks John. It will be worth re-reading them.

 

 

[rgmwa]

John,

 

Have you thought about publishing your articles in book form? The web version is obviously easy to update, the hyperlinks are very handy, and it's free for anyone to read, but I'd certainly buy a book if there was one available. You could easily sell them via the internet, and I bet I wouldn't be your only customer either. The tutorials are both detailed and clearly explained, and are a valuable reference work for any pilot. Many thanks for your time and effort.

 

rgmwa

 

 

[turboplanner]

Thanks John, you truly value-add to recreational flying

 

 

[Admin]

As always thanks for your great effort and contribution to all pilots

 

 

[John Brandon]

John,Have you thought about publishing your articles in book form? The web version is obviously easy to update, the hyperlinks are very handy, and it's free for anyone to read, but I'd certainly buy a book if there was one available. You could easily sell them via the internet, and I bet I wouldn't be your only customer either. The tutorials are both detailed and clearly explained, and are a valuable reference work for any pilot. Many thanks for your time and effort.

 

rgmwa

Thanks rgmwa and others. A printed format has often been suggested in the past but, as an octogenarian, it is not something with which I would choose to burden myself. Also the tutorials lack diagrams and other images that would certainly be necessary in print. The tutorials contain nearly 500 000 words of text plus the existing illustrations so it would cover two average manuals. The tutorials are designed as web-based material (with thousands of 'in-text' hyperlinks that provide its utility.

 

cheers

 

John Brandon