Determining Hot And High Performance: It All Adds Up

摘要

When contemplating how your aircraft will perform in a high density-altitude situation, the first thing to check is the outside air temperature gauge. As this article's main text discusses, the standard lapse rate is two degrees Centigrade (about 4.5 deg. F) per 1000 feet above sea level, so we need to do this basic math to determine whether density altitude is an issue. If it is, we then need to apply the conditions to our aircraft's predicted performance to decide what we can and cannot do.