ORIGINAL: pantherflyr
OK, I am a C-5 Flight Engineer and i am still unaware that the GALAXY has a 20% flap setting. It would be hard for the system to corelate with the 16 degree switches. How do you measure percent of the flaps for your aircraft? Uusally its percent of the available travel. Well hope you figure this out, because a cub flies alot differenty than a GALAXY. Nick
P.S- We only land at 40% when we have to due to mechanical defects.
Gettin' a bit off-topic here, but......GOT-AW-MITEY !!! Full flaps and leading edge slats out on a Galaxy and you almost got an aluminum circus tent. Darn biggest airfoil I ever saw. When I was talking degrees, I was referring to the smaller planes with only a single panel on each wing.
We came into CAFB one day, I, as Medical Crew Director was on headset so I could hear the flight crew as we approached. We had assymetric flaps, one wouldn't deploy, and the checklist said in that event to land without flaps (from what I overheard). Normal landing speed for the Starlifter is about 110-115 kts, we touched down at 135, overheated the reverser buckets and cooked the brakes. Still had a little runway left, though. Hell of a ride, and we got to practice our emergency ground egress procedures. I sure did like the old Starlizard.