Project 1A: Low Altitude Climb

Problem Statement

The aircraft of Problem 5 is required by the FAA to climb out at speeds less than 250 knots EAS when below 10,000 ft. Assume the aircraft flies at this flight speed, taking off from sea level.
Calculate thrust required/thrust available characteristics at at least 5 altitudes, sufficient to determine:

Rate of climb in ft/min vs altitude from sea level to 10,000 ft
Time to climb vs altitude

You may use steady level flight Power Curves for the climb conditions.

Submit:

A report guided by the format given here
Plot of flight speed vs altitude
Plot of rate of climb vs altitude
Plot of time to climb vs altitude
Power required/Power available curve at sea level, 5000 ft, 10000 ft

Mark the flight speed on each plot

Printout of

Source code for the calculations (Fortran or C)
Input (containing mission and configuration data) and output (suitable for plot data) files
Include files

Notes:

Code for Climb should be written as a subroutine (or function in C)

A main program then will call

an input subroutine,

the climb subroutine and

an output subroutine.

Code should be well-documented with appropriate comments with liberal use of subroutine (or function) routines.

See below for an example of how the main program code might develop as we proceed through the semester.

You are only doing Phase 3 for now.

You may wish to name the subroutine CLIMBOUT instead of PHASE2

      PROGRAM EXAMPLE
****  A SMALL COMMERCIAL JET
      INCLUDE ../inc/COMMON.INC
      IMPLICIT NONE 
                                                        
          CALL INPUT

****  PHASE 1 STARTUP AND TAKEOFF                                       
          CALL PHASE1                                 
****  PHASE 2 CLIMBOUT                                  
          CALL PHASE2                                  
****  PHASE 3 CRUISE TO DESTINATION
          CALL PHASE3                                  
****  PHASE 4 DESCEND AND LAND
          CALL PHASE4                                   
****  OUTPUT DATA
          CALL OUTPUT 
          STOP
          END

Due:Friday, Mar 5, 2:00 PM