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AvTalk Episode 156: China Eastern Airlines flight 5735

AvTalk - Aviation Podcast

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What Is Vertical Speed?

i want to talk about vertical speed. Because a lot of the initial numbers, because it's such a big number, that was the focus of a lot ofinitial porting by media. But i want to take a step back and talk about what the vertical speed figure actually is for ght s b. It's not how fast an aircraft is is falling or climbing over a time period that is then known in the future. So while these numbers are are big, and whele the post computed numbers are also big, that's why they are different.

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