Which Is Correct?

[Beebop]

[Bremspropeller]

One is degrees (readout on the wing), one is percent of travel (tech-chat).

[Sybreed]

20 degrees is about 40% flaps for the technochat. So both are correct.

[Goffik]

They should probably change the technochat to display degrees really, to prevent this kind of confusion. Most flight guides I've read express flap position in degrees too so % is not very helpful for beginners either.

[=FEW=fernando11]

1 hour ago, Goffik said:

They should probably change the technochat to display degrees really, to prevent this kind of confusion. Most flight guides I've read express flap position in degrees too so % is not very helpful for beginners either.

It might help. But on the other hand it might not.

 

I'm not 100% sure. But if you have X plane with 40° Max flap travel. And Y plane with 50° max flap travel. You might get people asking why flaps dont deploy fully for them because they dont go out to 50...

If you know flaps are on %. Then you know 100 Is the max flaps, doesn't matter the plane.

Also 50% is half, and so on.

 

No one way is beast for all. But if you know the limitations, you can always work arround it

 

A good rule of thumb is half of the % on technochat equals to °

[Beebop]

19 minutes ago, =FEW=fernando11 said:

A good rule of thumb is half of the % on technochat equals to °

EXCELLENT tip!  ?  Thanks!