Question

STE stands for ___________

(a) Standard total energy

(b) Specific terminal energy

(c) Standard terminal energy

(d) Specific total energy

I have been asked this question by my school principal while I was bunking the class.

Query is from High Performance Climb in portion Climb and Descent Performance of Aircraft Performance

Answer 1

The correct option is (d) Specific total energy

For explanation: Specific total energy is the potential and kinetic energy per unit mass. This is few times referred as the energy height as it represents the height of the aircraft would attain if all the kinetic energy is converted to potential energy.