Flight data?

[earthgoodboy]

Hi all

i am a student doing my thesis on the aircraft performance. However, i am in a need of actual flight data to validate my work. The parameters i am looking at is the range, fuel usage, velocity and altitude. Does anyone know where can i access to those data of any flights or any types of aircraft? The data could just be the average or the data of a single flight would be just fine.

Thank you
Anapat

 

[Sparweb]

It's a bit proprietary, what you're asking for... but there are ways of getting that info without using the internet for evil.

It sounds like you want the performance section of an aircraft Operating & Flight Manual. Nothing special there.
In fact you can often find that info in the sales brochures from the aircraft manufacturers' websites!
They'd have trouble selling the airplanes, after all, if they kept the performance a secret.
You haven't specified what aircraft interests you: piston/turbo/jet, private/passenger, military/civilian, etc etc.
If it's just a typical civilian passenger/private aircraft you're interested in, then surely a student in your position knows a professor who has an appropriate flight manual or two in their office to leaf through.

There are also a large number of books on aircraft performance that will tell you a lot about the subject, and some of them refer to actual aircraft, not just "paper airplanes". Roskam would be ideal.

Numerous agencies test aircraft for inventive purposes, namely NASA, the US military, and, back in the day, NACA. I bring that up because there are thousands of reports from the olden days available for free online with aircraft performance test results and data reduction all there for you.

STF

 

[rb1957]

for my 2c, i think it's pretty available info ...
look in any airplane flight manual !
maybe even Flt Sim ?
how about jane's or Flight international ?

oh, btw, read the red text immediate above the submit button ...



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[earthgoodboy]

Thanks you both for replying my post. but i think there is a bit misunderstanding here. The flight data I am looking for is actually the data recorded from a real flight, not the performance specification of the aircraft. It is sort of the data recorded every minute during the flight saying what is the current altitude, how far has been traveled and how much fuel left.

Btw, I am looking at particularly either turbo jet or turbofan engine.

 

[rb1957]

flight dat recorders would contain this info, also most modern maintenanc computers would probably down load this ... talk to an airline.

pls heed the red text above the submit button. RF your thread, ask "dave" to delete it ...

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[kontiki99]

Get down to the local airport and go up in a small aircraft equipped with a good GPS system, maybe a G1000 or better. There are iPad packages with GPS plugins that will allow you to do this.

G1000 already lets you enter total fuel load, track consumption and presents a 45 min warning ring and max range ring on you moving map as you fly. FF numbers are on Engine pages to one decimal (from memory).

Free download of pilots manual at Garmin site should give you some idea what you can see on it.
I fly Garmin Pilot charts on my ipad so I can't tell you exactly how, but I believe WingX (iPad App) can accept and maybe log data from remotely mounted AHRS unit via blutooth too.

All iPad chart programs have some sort of GPS alt, speed display, maybe data loging too.
You can have some fun with this.




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