Jets Vs Props

While an airplane is gliding, without power, there are three factors acting upon the airplane; lift, drag, and weight. These three factors the components that allow an airplane to fly in the air. However if a pilot wants to fly for longer than twenty minutes, the aircraft needs to have thrust. Thrust comes from the engine and propels an airplane through the sky. There are three major ways in which to control thrust, the first is the throttle, “The less performance you ask out of the engine, the less you will get”(Theory. Page 1.) The second way to control thrust is by flaps and spoilers. Flaps create lift while adding drag and causing the plane

When assessing which would be better for civilians, jets or props you must look at their safety record. Most prop/turboprop aircraft accidents happen because of pilot error. The pilot may not be watching his fuel gauges or not watching his altitude. For example, if a single engine prop plane is flying and runs out of fuel, the pilot only has to adjust his plane to a few degrees below the horizon and look for a place to land. If a jet ran out of fuel in flight the pilot would have to adjust his plane to at least fifteen degrees below the horizon. The prop/turboprop plane would be traveling around seventy knots while the jet would be traveling at least one hundred thirty knots. The jet pilot would be screaming toward the ground and praying for a place to land, while the prop/turboprop pilot is gently gliding toward the ground and calmly looking for a place to land. Although most jets don’t run out of fuel, jets have a safety disadvantage when it comes to landing or being at a low altitude. While a pilot is landing he is looking for three things; other planes, birds/animals, and where he’s going to touch down. Lets say a prop pilot is landing and sees a bunch of birds on the runway. Since he is traveling around sixty knots the birds get out of his way before he hits them. The concept of the go around can be a good thing and a bad thing. It can be good because the pilot is giving himself another chance at making a perfect landing. It can be very bad if there are two runways on which to land. One plane is landing on the east-west runway while one is getting ready to land on the north-south runway. If the pilot landing on the east-west runway calls a go around due to some birds, not only does this delay the planes waiting to land on the east-west runway but it also delays the planes on the north-south runway. Causing confusion and all those large planes in a small area raises the percent of accidents. “Accidents are most likely to happen with large airplanes, traveling fast, in small compact areas”(Wood. Page 23.) Although safety is at its lowest while around airports for both jets and props. Prop aircraft provide more safety because of their speed and because of their size.

For civilian life I have come to the conclusion that unfortunately with our fast paced society and commercial travel needs the turboprop is not a widely used form of transportation in sp

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