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Expect extremely high descent rates during the whole pattern - in subsonic flight, the Shuttle drops a good 7000 ft/min, in the early supersonic stage it might drop even faster than this to stay on the trajectory. The glide ratio you can expect at best is some 4.5 in the late phases of the approach (a typical airliner might be closer to 20), so you're not flying a very nimble vessel. The only thing that makes TAEM work is that we come in extremely high and fast and thus have plenty of energy to dissipate. | Expect extremely high descent rates during the whole pattern - in subsonic flight, the Shuttle drops a good 7000 ft/min, in the early supersonic stage it might drop even faster than this to stay on the trajectory. The glide ratio you can expect at best is some 4.5 in the late phases of the approach (a typical airliner might be closer to 20), so you're not flying a very nimble vessel. The only thing that makes TAEM work is that we come in extremely high and fast and thus have plenty of energy to dissipate. | ||
Going Subsonic, back to Normal Ariplane speed and you can take manual control of the Orbiter | Going Subsonic, back to Normal Ariplane speed and you can take manual control of the Orbiter when you point by going to '''CSS Pitch and CSS Roll/Yaw''' | ||
[[File:Subsonic.jpg|1000px]] | [[File:Subsonic.jpg|1000px]] | ||