Talk:Eurocopter Super Puma

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[edit] Specifications

Reading this page, something jumped out at me as being "wrong" ....

I don't think that 7200 metres = 19750 feet, as given in the service ceiling. By a very rough calculation, 7200 metres must be more than 21600 feet, as 1 metre is more than 3 feet!

More precise calculations, using the conversion factor of "foot (International) ft ≡ 1/3 yd = 0.3048 m" from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_factors, suggest that 19750 feet = 6020 metres, and 7200 metres = 23620 feet (rounding to the nearest 10 metres / 10 feet). Unfortunately I can't seem to find relevant figures on the manufacturers website for either the Super Puma or the Cougar to determine which is correct.

http://www.eads.com/1024/en/businet/eurocopter/civil/super_puma.html http://www.eads.com/1024/en/businet/eurocopter/military/cougar.html

Figures given on a third party site here http://www.aircharter.co.uk/aircraft/super_puma.htm suggest 7200 metres is the correct figure, but is that enough of a source to change the page? My best efforts at searching the web found only that single reference that might help. I have found other pages that give various other values for "ceiling" that appear to be based on operating conditions, and in at least one case a page discusses both puma and super-puma / cougar and fails to differentiate when discussing ceiling whether the figure relates to the puma or the super-puma.

So, I'll leave it to someone else who has more subject knowledge than me to fix.

Denis McMahon DMcMPO11AAUK 06:58, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Indonesian Operators

I changed the Indonesian Operators from Civilian to Military since TNI-AU means Indonesian Air Force and Dispenerbal means Naval Aviation Corps.