Hellenic Air Force F-16C/D manual and how it relates to BMS F-16s
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This F-16C/D manual, supplement and checklist seem to be the only real available documents on the newer F-16s unlike the A/B which have a USAF manual that is easily obtained online. My question is…is it “usable” for BMS F-16C/D? do the HAF use the same F-16C/D the USAF use?. Also I have a side question that relates, the HAF F-16C/D manual has a tonne of charts that use Knots Indicated Airspeed KIAS, to my understanding, on the real F-16 this is obtained from the airspeed indicator in the center panel. In BMS this instrument seems to only show a mirror of the speed shown in the HUD when on calibrated airspeed. Is this right? if so how would you calculate indicated airspeed without the “indicator”? I have the formulas for KCAS to KTAS and KGRS but no KIAS.
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if so how would you calculate indicated airspeed without the “indicator”? I have the formulas for KCAS to KTAS and KGRS but no KIAS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspeed
Calibrated Airspeed (CAS) is the Indicated Airspeed (IAS) corrected for instrument, position and installation errors. No instrument is the same, so the error would be different for each aircraft. I’m guessing there’s a maximum margin of error, but no idea what it would be, or even if it is static. E.g. could be 0.5% at sea level, but 5% at 30,000ft (random numbers)
As BMS probably doesn’t have this margin of error implemented (correct me if wrong), I would assume both instruments show the same simply because IAS = CAS in the BMS world.