Episode #40 - Density Altitude

Audio Ground School by Part Time Pilot - A podcast by Nick Smith

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We wrap up the section on the Fundamentals of Aerodynamics with... an altitude? What the heck? Well, it turns out that density altitude is ALL about aircraft performance and in order to understand how it effects our aircraft, we first had to understand the fundamentals of things like lift and drag. Now that we have, we can comprehend density altitude and why we care about it.