 Lancair crash at SnF
Robert Moore wrote:
> WingFlaps wrote
>
>>Is there anyone here who thinks velocity is not used by pilots as a
>>vector (apart from Stefan)? I say the common parlance for the
>>magnitude of velocity is SPEED that is why you have an ASI in your
>>plane and a speedometer in your car. Anyone disagree?
>
>
> Hmmmm.....I wonder why we have "V" speeds, you know V1, Vso, etc.?
Quite simple: In physics, the abbreviation of 'velocity'
has been 'v' for a long time. The indices then describe
which speed it is.
Velocity is the value of speed vector without direction
information.
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