(Excerpted from FAAST Blast — FAA Safety Briefing Live, Aircraft Performance and Calculations, No Surprises – Keeping Control of Avionics and Automation)
Accident investigations have discovered causal factors resulting from unreasonable expectations of aircraft performance — especially when operating at the edges of the aircraft weight and balance envelope.
That’s why the General Aviation Joint Steering Committee’s Loss of Control Work Group suggests improvement in pilots’ understanding and calculation of aircraft performance. Check out #FlySafe fact sheet on Aircraft Performance and Calculations at http://bit.ly/VxVy. To see the most current versions of all our #FlySafe fact sheets, arranged by topic, go to http://bit.ly/GAFactSheets.
