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I need some help here.  :-*
I need to know how and what geometry is used in flying. Anything would hlep, I'm at a stanstill here.

A squared plus B squared equal C squared (Pathagrums therum)(sp?). The great circle (long distance navigation)

  Theres something, thx

Trigonometry - sine, cosine and tangent rules.

Plus for air traffic controlling there is a whole heap of right angled triangle and geometric rules used for the separation of aircraft.

ah! NO MORE MATH! I'm surrounded by it!  :D Oh well, just finish my calculus final at home this weekend and I'm done with all of my math classes FOREVER!

Russian variant of the famous Jeppesen flight computer

Math and flying...
As soon as the wind comes into play!

haha thats easy! My geomrety books applies SOMETIMES concepts of Geometry to planes.

Hold on looking....

Its a problem so paraphrase what to put:

For safety airplanes heading eastward are assigned an altitude level that is an odd number of thousands of feet and airplanes heading westbound are assigned al altitude level that is an even number of thousands of feet.  If you're an airplane flying southwest at 32,000 ft and your best friend and your best friend is in an airplane flying east at 23,000 ft describe the type of lines  formed by the paths of the two planes. Explain your reasoning

That is one

One more in my Geometry book tho this is a bit of basic knowledge:

An airplane passing over Richmond at an elevation of 33,000 ft begins its decent to land at Washington, D.C., 107 miles away. How many feet should the airplane descend per mile to land in Washington,D.C., which has an elevation of 25 feet? Explain how you arrived at this answer.

Right lets make this the last one dont' want to get into any copyright probs



Just in case:

Copyright (c) 1998 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Well for some reason it won't show.

It has a chart so I can't type it. If you want it e-mail me or IM me. Still trying to fix this.

EDIT: YAY its there! Hope that's enough.

Good day.

Well what about the approach?  We can't just smack onto the middle of tarmac at 10 FPS.  Unless you're Ozzy!

Thanks guys, this is helping alot! I have 'til Monday so ill be checking back every day!

In a word.......EVERYTHING about flying is geometry.....
.........wing location with in the fuselage, upper surface to lower surface at the wing lead edge, trailing edge, stabilzer to fuselage datum, wingtip to tail trammelling, windscreen angle, thrust line deviations from fuselage datum, rotation angle required to leave the ground at given speeds, bank angle in rate 1 turn, stall angle of the wing..... the list goes on........

Oh man. Long list of how it relates.

Planes: Everything about the plane has to do with shapes. .  Triangles, circles, squares, that sort of stuff.

Flight plans: Planning on flying straight? Yes? Not much to worry about.

Want more? I can keep going. . .

Simple algebra...

X= Altitude of runway
Y= Your altitude.

If X>Y you have a serious problem
If X

[quote]Simple algebra...

X= Altitude of runway
Y= Your altitude.

If X>Y you have a serious problem
If X