Inglês/Português
<< drift correction angle | drift down | driftdown >>
Back to: "D"drift down
- Definição1
- A gradual en route descent from a higher altitude.
- Fonte1
- KUMAR, Bharat (ed.). An illustrated dictionary of aviation. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2005. 752 p.
- Definição2
- A procedure by which an airplane with one or more inoperative engines, and the remaining engines producing maximum continuous thrust (MCT), and while maintaining a specified speed (usually best L/D x 1.01%), descends to the altitude at which the airplane can maintain altitude and being to climb (this attitude is defined as driftdown height).
- Fonte2
- CRANE, Dale (ed.). Dictionary of aeronautical terms. 4th ed. Newcastle: ASA, 2006.
- Definição3
- Gradual en route descent from top of flight profile (now rare).
- Fonte3
- GUNSTON, Bill. The cambridge aerospace dictionary. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2004. vii, 740 p. (Cambridge aerospace series.)
- Fonte4
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Training manual. Part D-3: flight operations officers/flight dispatchers. 2nd ed. Montreal, 1998. (Doc. 7192-AN/857 Part D-3)
- Nota adicional1
- It is a flight procedure.
- Contexto
- Plans for contingencies such as: - terminal weather below operating minima; - situations for which point of no return or critical point estimates would be valuable; - drift down after engine failure.
- Subárea1
- Air Navigation
- Related Term
- drift
- Variante
- drift-down
- driftdown
- Português
- descida progressiva