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Flight Performance and Planning - BPL Gas Balloon Pilot Licence

Questions Flight Performance and Planning - BPL Gas Balloon Theory Practice

The maximum number of passengers can be found ... 4 Answers The Empty Mass of a gas balloon includes: 4 Answers Before take-off, the balloon pilot realises that the maximum take-off mass has been exceeded by 5%. What has to be done? 4 Answers Information about operational limits, loading and performance about an aircraft can be taken from which document? 4 Answers For a fully inflated gas balloon at the same ambient pressure, envelope volume and lifting-gas temperature, what happens to lifting capacity when the outside air temperature decreases? 4 Answers What effect has the elevation above MSL of an airfield on the carrying force and maximum take-off mass of a balloon? 4 Answers What difference will be experienced during take-off in presence of a strong surface inversion, compared to a take-off with decreasing temperature with height? 4 Answers What has to be expected when diving into an inversion layer from above? 4 Answers Given the following masses: Empty mass 240 kg Instruments 20 kg per gas container (full): 30 kg per person: 80 kg Up to which pressure altitude can the hot-air balloon climb with 5 persons and 4 gas containers in the basket, assuming temperatures 10° below ISA? (use attachment ECQB-PPL_BPL001) 4 Answers Given the following masses: Empty mass 260 kg Instruments 20 kg per gas container (full): 30 kg per person: 80 kg Assuming temperature ISA+10, how many persons may be carried in the basket at maximum, if the hot-air balloon with 4 gas containers has to climb up to pressure altitude 12.000 ft ? (use attachment ECQB-PPL_BPL001) 4 Answers

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