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HIGE
- Usado para
- hovering in ground effect
- Definição1
- A helicopter hovering at a height that is equal to or less than the span of its rotors. A helicopter can hover in ground effect at a higher density altitude that it can hover out of ground effect. A helicopter requires less power to hover in ground effect than hover out of ground effect. The power requirement varies directly with the height above ground level.
- Fonte1
- KUMAR, Bharat (ed.). An illustrated dictionary of aviation. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2005. 752 p.
- Fonte2
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Manual of aircraft accident and incident investigation. Part III: investigation. 1st ed. Montreal, 2011. (Doc. 9756)
- Contexto
- Compared with performance required to hover out of ground effect (HOGE), hovering in ground effect (HIGE) has beneficial gain in lift production or in reducing power required to hover at the same weight when hovering approximately one rotor disc diameter or less above the surface.
- Subárea1
- Rotorcraft
- Português
- voo pairado dentro do efeito solo