Originally Posted by
Tanker-driver
Navi,
When was the last time you departed MGW form a hot and/or high location? Rs beat the hell out of Es and As, but a "rotate" call at 1000' runway remaining still happens on occasion. We're under 200/nm and even 152/nm pretty often on operational sorties even with the CFMs.
KC-135 climb performance (in actual feet per nautical mile) has always been a mysterious hocus pocus to me. Before this most recent change the performance manual defined "climb gradient" in three different ways in three consecutive sentences. So now, after decades of having nothing, we have SID compliance charts, from which we can derive a ft/nm value given the required variables. Why can't we just get simple tab data, like the T-1 has?