Intro to Aeronautical Science

    Flaps on an aircraft can be a very important secondary flight control system depending on various types of landings or even runway length available.  I'm going to use the MC-130J Commando II as an example. This aircraft has Fowler Type flaps which are considered high lift (Jan 2021).  When we want to land on a short runway, we have to land between 300 and 540 feet per minute descent rate.  If we couldn't roll flaps to 100%, this would not be possible as we could not get the airplane slowed fast enough.  The flaps are controlled by the utility hydraulic system from an electronic controlled flaps lever.  In the event we can't lower or raise the flaps through normal methods, we have to remove the electronic control from the mission computer and operate them using manual hydraulic control valves.  However, by doing this it takes away the asymmetric flap protection. There are also further ways of operating the flaps in the event we were to lose hyd...

 High vs Low Pressure  When talking about the low-pressure system, this would cause a longer takeoff distance.  The density of air is determined by the masses of atoms and molecules and the amount of space between them (April 2020). Pressure is the force divided by the area. Density and pressure go hand in hand in aviation. So, in a low-pressure system, because the air is less dense it will take more pressure to provide enough lift in order to get airborne.  In order to achieve this, we must calculate a longer takeoff distance which creates a higher speed in which we rotate the aircraft for take-off. In the high-pressure system, because the air is thicker and more dense, the air is actually heavier.  Using the same information as above with density and pressure, this high-pressure system will allow the aircraft to take off in a much shorter distance (April 2020).  With the denser air, the molecules being closer together the pressure is already higher. ...

  Webster's Dictionary defines ethics as "the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with a moral duty and obligation."  Another way of looking at ethics is a moral behavior that governs one's behavior.  Humanity, in general, has to make a conscious effort to exhibit moral ethics. In aviation not only the pilot, but the entire crew has a moral-ethical obligation to keep the crew and passengers safe on the aircraft. Sometimes more experienced pilots tend to test their ethics when they have hidden agendas.  This is often a result of complacency in the aircraft.  When we specifically look at ethics as it relates to military aviation operations, our ethics tend to get tested in other ways because of our disdain for the country or group that attacked the United States. Jeff Wofford once said, " Professionalism in aviation is the pursuit of doing it right, all the time, even when nobody’s looking" (NBAA, 2018).  In times when I was deployed, I had to pu...