TCA Aircraft Testing Department.

Jet/ turboprop/ large prop aircraft test report:

Date of Report:		December 10, 1998
Tested by:		Philip M. Wafer
			TCA #2302
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SECTION A: (Original FSFS aircraft details.)

	a) Aircraft name:		Boeing C97 cargo
	b) Aircraft registration:	PJ-TPP
	c) Aircraft Filename:		TCA-C97G.ZIP

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SECTION B: (FS98 only aircraft file details.) 

	a) Aircraft name:
	b) Aircraft registration:
	c) Aircraft filename:

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SECTION C: (Criteria Tested)


***			TAKE OFF PARAMETERS

1)	Take-off distance:	1100m

2)	Rotation speed (Vr): 	(max fuel) KIAS.
		a) Educated guess: 120 KIAS
		b) Calculated:     109(Vstall dirty x 1.3 KIAS) 
				   117 kIAS (APM)

4)	Climb: 			Airspeed & feet per minute. KIAS/fpm
		a) Initial Climb: (Under 3000') 	120/2000fpm
		b) Under 10000' climb: 			150/1100fpm
		c) Over 10000'climb: 			160/700fpm


***			CRUISE PARAMETERS	

5)	Endurance (range): nm	6300nm

6)	Overspeed clacker: Mach number/KIAS 300kias @ FL200

7)	Speed @ 80% N1, FL200 :  Mach number or KIAS.	215 kIAS

8)	% N1 at recommended economic cruise speed:	80%


***			LANDING PARAMETERS

9)	Descent:above FL100	160/2400fpm
		10000 to 3000	150/1600fpm
		below 3000	120/1000fpm		


10)	Approach speed 30% fuel (KIAS):	97kIAS


11)	Landing speed (KIAS):
		a)  30% fuel:	97kIAS 
		b)  15% fuel:	91kIAS 

12)	Landing distance: 700m	


***			HANDLING PARAMETERS		


13)	Behavior under AP: (OK or not)!
	a) Speed AP.		N/A
	b) Altitude AP.		OK
	c) Heading AP.		OK
	d) NAV1 AP.		OK
	e) Back course AP.	??
	f) Approach AP.		Slow
	g) Autoland.		N/A


14)	Stall speed: (KIAS)
	a) 100% fuel - 	97 clean, 90 dirty
	b)  30% fuel - 	81 clean, 75 dirty


15)	Turns AP ON - (OK or not?)
	a) Level turns		OK
	b) Climbing turns.	OK
	c) Descending turns.	OK

16)	Turns AP OFF - (OK or not?)
	a) Level turns		OK
	b) Climbing turns.	OK
	c) Descending turns.	OK


***			EMERGENCY SITUATIONS 		


17)	Take-off with some engines out of service:
	Killed No2 engine at 110 knots. a/c rotated ok but with a slight
	push to left. Climb out was slow, but easily controlled. Landing
	was easy. Did a second run with all 4 engines and killed No1
	engine at 110 knots. Results are the same as before. 


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SECTION D: 	NOTES/COMMENTS:

1)	"APM" = Aircraft Performance Manager version 1.0 by Marco Pacagnella.

2)	Hard to steer on the ground.

3)	On investigating the *.AIR file with ADE I notice that it quotes
	fuel density as 6.0 lbs/gallon, and also a clean stall figure of 
	94 kias. Rotate calculated figures in APM then calculate out 
	different to standard hand calculations i.e stall 90 x 1.3 = 117 
	whereas APM calculates 109 kIAS

4)	The stall horn and the actual stall occur together!!

5)	The range comes out about 50% higher than stated in the docs!